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Latitude: 54.6628 / 54°39'46"N
Longitude: -1.6736 / 1°40'24"W
OS Eastings: 421152
OS Northings: 529800
OS Grid: NZ211298
Mapcode National: GBR JGRJ.G8
Mapcode Global: WHC58.8296
Plus Code: 9C6WM87G+4H
Entry Name: The Lightfoot Institute
Listing Date: 23 May 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1297565
English Heritage Legacy ID: 385685
ID on this website: 101297565
Location: Bishop Auckland, County Durham, DL14
County: County Durham
Civil Parish: Bishop Auckland
Built-Up Area: Bishop Auckland
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham
Church of England Parish: Bishop Auckland
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: Library building Jacobethan
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 June 2023 to amend the name of the architect
NZ2129NW
634-1/12/51
BISHOP AUCKLAND
KINGSWAY (east side)
No 24, The Lightfoot Institute
(Formerly listed as Library, KINGSWAY)
GV
II
The building was founded as a Young Men’s Church Institute and named after Bishop Lightfoot. Designed by Robert Wilkinson Thompson (1850-96) in a plain simple Jacobean style, it opened in 1882. It is of dressed sandstone construction with tall pointed gables, pitched slate roofs and stone mullioned windows. The building was the town’s library until the 1990s and served as multipurposed community space before being redeveloped as apartments in 2021.
Two storeys, 1:2:1 bays. Wide six-panel door recessed in roll-moulded surround in third bay has three-pane overlight with stone mullions. Ballflower stops to stepped label mould over door and eroded carved arms of Bishop Lightfoot. Tall two-light stone cross mullion windows. Louvred slit vents in high gables of end bays. Roll-moulded gable coping rests on moulded kneelers. Corbelled eaves gutter to steeply pitched roof which has ridge cresting, tall corniced chimneys rising from right return eaves, and central octagonal ridge lantern with small lucarnes, pierced vent panels and lead spirelet.
Listing NGR: NZ2115229800
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