Numbers 10-22 Incorporating City Walls

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NY3956SE WEST WALLS 671-1/6/309 (West side) Nos.10-22 (Even) incorporating city walls

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City wall, mews stables, warehouses and school; now theatre, public house, amusement arcade and disco. Early C12 city wall, 1813 school, late C19 mews and 1980s public house, etc. These later buildings in themselves are not of interest but are listed to protect the city wall behind them. The front wall of each building on the West Walls facade being built on top of the west city walls. Robert Smirke suggested that buildings could be built against the walls when he advised on the building of the Central School; see correspondence in Cumbria County Record Office, Ca/2/209/76 and Ca/5/3/39, and conveyances of the School 1919-20 as St Cuthbert's Parish Hall (the school closed 31 August 1909) Ca/5/2/40. That the city wall exists behind these buildings was confirmed by work done by the Carlisle Archaeological Unit in recording the structure when "Legends" and "Big Softies" were extended in 1985. For the through-archway and chamber behind the wall, thought to be the sewerage outlet for Blackfriars Convent, now within the Green Room Theatre, see W Hutchinson (1794); Carlisle Journal (1829); and Lysons Magna Britannia: Cumberland (1816), for drawings of the chamber. This stretch of city walls does not form part of the Scheduled Ancient Monument of the remaining exposed West Walls, but is a continuation of it. For the further continuation of this wall see under the Central Plaza Hotel, Victoria Viaduct (qv). (Carlisle Journal: 7 February 1829; Lysons: Magna Britannia; Cumberland: 1816-: P.CCVII; Hutchinson, William: History of Cumberland: 1794-: P.607).

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