Description

CARLISLE

NY3955NE THE ABBEY
671-1/10/22 Bishop's Registry
01/06/49

GV II*

Former Cathedral library, at one time used as a registry, now
unoccupied. Dated and inscribed frieze over entrance THOMAS
CARLIOL AD 1699 (Thomas Smith, the Bishop of Carlisle).
English bond brickwork on red sandstone plinth, the chamfer
and all other dressings of calciferous sandstone; V-jointed
quoins and eaves cornice. Graduated greenslate roof with coped
gables and kneelers; brick and ashlar gable chimney stacks.
Single storey, 2 bays. Central C20 panelled door in bolection
architrave under swan-neck pediment enclosing bishops mitre
(possibly all C20 replacement, when compared with other
weathering on stonework); up semicircular steps. C20 wooden
mullioned leaded windows in replacement bolection architraves.
Right return wall has been partly rebuilt in red sandstone.
INTERIOR has plain whitewashed brick walls without fixtures.

Listing NGR: NY3981255943

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17541993

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)