Listed Building: ROMANESQUE DOOR ARCH IN THE FORMER LINCOLN ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE (1388602)

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Grade II*
Authority Department of Culture, Media and Sport
Date assigned 24 September 1986
Date last amended

Description

LINCOLN SK97SE HIGH STREET 1941-1/2/146 (West side) 24/09/86 Romanesque door arch in the former Lincoln Arms Public House (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (West side) The Lincoln Arms) GV II* Romanesque door arch, c1150, salvaged during demolition, 1783, and resited 1907. Situated in a first floor rear room. Limestone rubble. Outer arch has a complex double chevron moulding enhanced by an early form of dogtooth moulding. Inner arch has keeled roll moulding flanked by quirks and hollows. The arch was removed from St Andrew's Hall, a Norman house which stood on this site till its demolition in 1783. The special interest of the arch derives from its place in a C12 domestic building. Most surviving examples of domestic architecture of this period are to be found in Lincolnshire. (Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 525-526). Listing NGR: SK9728670446

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Grid reference SK 97286 70446 (point)
Map sheet SK97SE
District LINCOLN, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Apr 17 2009 4:44PM

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