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Exchange Arcade, Lincoln

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Originally, the local corn merchants conducted their business in the open air on Cornhill. 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
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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
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The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of five bays facing onto Cornhill. The ground floor was
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known as the Cornhill Vaults. At the east end the anchor store was occupied by the bookshop,
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The foundation stone for the new building was laid on 1 September 1847. It was designed by
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for the town. The site they selected was undeveloped land to the east of the High Street.
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and converted into a shopping arcade known as the Exchange Arcade which opened in 1880.
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and the central section of three bays, which was projected forward, formed a
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at a cost of £15,000 and was officially opened on 31 March 1848.
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above. The outer bays were fenestrated on the first floor by
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Pevsner, Nikolaus; Harris, John; Antram, Nicholas (1989).
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was an early visitor to the new building in April 1849.
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In the 1870s, civic officials decided to commission a
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Commercial building in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
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containing three round headed openings supporting a
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Lincoln
53°13′39″N 0°32′24″W / 53.2275°N 0.5399°W / 53.2275; -0.5399
William Adams Nicholson
Neoclassical style
Listed Building
Exchange Arcade, Lincoln is located in Lincolnshire
Lincoln
Lincolnshire
listed building
corn exchange
William Adams Nicholson
neoclassical style
ashlar
Kirk and Parry
Sleaford
Prince Albert
rusticated
podium
tetrastyle
portico
Corinthian order
entablature
pediment
sash windows
cornices
consoles
Corinthian order
pilasters
new corn exchange

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