Gardens · East Midlands
Market Building
Market Building — a garden in england-east-midlands, United Kingdom.
Jo and Steve Turner — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2.5 h
- Best time of year
- Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)
About
Market Building is a garden of interest in england-east-midlands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
The Corn Exchange is a commercial building in Sincil Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. The structure, which is now used as a restaurant and shops, is a Grade II listed building.
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Background
History
Since the mid-19th century corn traders had been trading in the old corn exchange in the centre of Cornhill. However, in the mid-1870s directors of the "Lincoln Corn Exchange and Market Company", which operated the earlier building, decided to finance and commission a much more substantial corn exchange for the city. The new building was designed by Bellamy and Hardy in the Italianate style, built by Walter and Hensmen of Horncastle in red brick with stone dressings at a cost of £9,000, and was officially opened with a grand concert in December 1879. The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage of twelve bays facing south onto Cornhill. The left-hand bay featured a wide opening on the…
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 53.2276, -0.5395
- Address
- Sincil Street, Lincoln
- Established
- 1879
Sources
- wikidata: Q26668028 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Corn Exchange, Lincoln (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Market Building?
- Market Building is in the East Midlands, United Kingdom.
- When was Market Building built?
- Built or established in 1879.
- Who owns Market Building?
- Market Building is owned by | website=.