Bishops Registry

The Bishop's Registry is a former Cathedral library, which was also used as a registry and is currently unoccupied. It features a dated and inscribed frieze over the entrance that reads "THOMAS CARLIOL AD 1699," referring to Thomas Smith, the Bishop of Carlisle. The building is constructed with English bond brickwork set on a red sandstone plinth, with chamfered and other dressings made of calciferous sandstone. It has V-jointed quoins and an eaves cornice. The roof is made of graduated greenslate and includes coped gables and kneelers, along with brick and ashlar gable chimney stacks. The structure is single storey and consists of two bays.

The central entrance has a 20th-century panelled door framed by a bolection architrave and topped with a swan-neck pediment that encloses a bishop's mitre, which may all be 20th-century replacements when compared to the weathering on the stonework. This entrance is accessed via semicircular steps. The building has 20th-century wooden mullioned leaded windows set in replacement bolection architraves. The right return wall has been partly rebuilt in red sandstone. Inside, the walls are plain whitewashed brick without any fixtures.