Exchange Arcade, Lincoln

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Exchange Arcade, Lincoln
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Exchange Arcade, Lincoln
LocationCornhill, Lincoln
Coordinates 53°13′39″N0°32′24″W / 53.2275°N 0.5399°W / 53.2275; -0.5399
Built1848
Architect William Adams Nicholson
Architectural style(s) Neoclassical style
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameFormer Corn Exchange
Designated2 October 1969
Reference no.1388501
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The Exchange Arcade is a shopping mall in Cornhill in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. The structure, which was commissioned as a corn exchange, is a Grade II listed building. [1]

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History

Originally, the local corn merchants conducted their business in the open air on Cornhill. [2] In the mid-1840s, after finding this arrangement inadequate, a group of local businessmen decided to form a private company, known as the "Lincoln Corn Exchange and Market Company", to finance and commission a corn exchange for the town. [3] The site they selected was undeveloped land to the east of the High Street. [1]

The foundation stone for the new building was laid on 1 September 1847. [4] It was designed by William Adams Nicholson [5] in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone by Kirk and Parry of Sleaford at a cost of £15,000 and was officially opened on 31 March 1848. Prince Albert was an early visitor to the new building in April 1849. [6]

The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of five bays facing onto Cornhill. The ground floor was rusticated and the central section of three bays, which was projected forward, formed a podium containing three round headed openings supporting a tetrastyle portico with Corinthian order columns, with a large entablature and pediment above. The outer bays were fenestrated on the first floor by sash windows with cornices supported by consoles and flanked by Corinthian order pilasters. [1]

In the 1870s, civic officials decided to commission a new corn exchange, later known as the Market Hall, which was erected on the corner of Cornhill and Sincil Street and opened in December 1879. [7] Meanwhile, the old corn exchange was significantly extended to the east with a bullnose shaped extension designed by Bellamy and Hardy and converted into a shopping arcade known as the Exchange Arcade which opened in 1880. [8]

The building has been occupied by a large number of tenants since it became a shopping arcade. In the 1976, the basement area, which had originally been used as a grain store, was converted into a public house operated by Ruddles Brewery known as the Cornhill Vaults. At the east end the anchor store was occupied by the bookshop, Waterstones, from 2005 to 2021, [9] when the unit was taken over by Superdry. [10] Meanwhile, at the west end the main tenant has been Santander Bank since 2010. [11]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Historic England. "Former Corn Exchange (1388501)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 3 May 2023.
  2. ↑ "Corn Exchange". Lincolnshire Life. 1 April 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
  3. ↑ The Joint stock companies' directory. Charles Barker and Sons. 1867. p. 810.
  4. ↑ Hill, Francis (1974). Victorian Lincoln. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0521203340.
  5. ↑ Boase, Frederic (1897). Modern English Biography Containing Many Thousand Concise Memoirs of Persons who Have Died Since the Year 1850, with an Index of the Most Interesting Matter. Vol. 2. Netherton and Worth. p. 1145.
  6. ↑ "The building of the first Lincoln Corn Exchange". Lincoln Independent. 1 September 2021. p. 18. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
  7. ↑ Historic England. "Market Building (1388502)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 3 May 2023.
  8. ↑ Pevsner, Nikolaus; Harris, John; Antram, Nicholas (1989). Lincolnshire (Buildings of England Series). Yale University Press. p. 523. ISBN   978-0300096200.
  9. ↑ "Waterstones closes Economists' Bookshop and Lincoln Exchange branch". The Bookseller. 26 January 2021. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
  10. ↑ "Unlocking the 'Vaults': Memories and photos of iconic former Lincoln pub". The Lincolnite. 31 January 2023. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
  11. ↑ "Share your memories of Lincoln's Cornhill with us!". Lincolnshire Live. 16 February 2017. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
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