Bishops Registry is a Grade II* listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1949. Registry. 1 related planning application.
Bishops Registry
- WRENN ID
- eternal-tower-reed
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1949
- Type
- Registry
- Source
- Historic England listing
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
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