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Crown and Mitre Hotel, Carlisle
Crown and Mitre Hotel
Street:-   Market Place
locality:-   Carlisle
civil parish:-   Carlisle (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   NY40015592
1Km square:-   NY4055
10Km square:-   NY45

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evidence:-   descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) 
placename:-  Crown and Mitre Hotel
placename:-  Coffee House
source data:-   Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman, Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839.
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Page 106:-  "[in Market Place] stands that excellently-conducted inn and posting-house, the Crown and Mitre Hotel and Coffee House, better known by its latter name. ..."
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Page 175:-  "..."
"[Carlisle] ... Bush, Crown and Mitre, and Royal Hotels, excellent"
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Crown and Mitre Hotel
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CROWN AND MITRE HOTEL / 40455 / ENGLISH STREET / CARLISLE / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 386715 / NY4001955928"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Includes: No.54 CASTLE STREET."
"Hotel with shops beneath. 1903-5 for Walter Scott, by George Dale Oliver of Carlisle. Ground floor rusticated red sandstone ashlar; brick walls above with flush stone quoins (all dressings of red sandstone), string courses, eaves cornice and open balustraded parapet. Greenslate mansard roof with dormer windows; red brick ridge chimney stacks. 4 storeys, 11 bays. Central and end projecting bays are carried above the eaves with prominent shaped gables. Central C20 glazed doors in original round stone arch with panelled sofits; round-arched side lights. 2-storey mullioned and transomed bay windows above have a carved panel between of Art Nouveau figures and scrolled vine leaves. Ground floor C20 shop windows within original divisions of rusticated pilasters and decorative carved panels. Recessed bays have a first-floor open-balustraded balcony with (non-original) urn finials. Upper-floor 3-light windows are mullioned and transomed, 2nd floor with one, 1st floor with 2 transoms and some in the end bays with side lights. Separate carved Crown and Mitre on projecting end bays have painted details."
"INTERIOR retains much original detail; rib-panelled plaster ceilings, some with modillioned cornices, banded marble walls in hall, dado panelling and marble columns; Art Nouveau relief plaster panel of Peace and Plenty. Staircase with wrought-iron balusters and moulded wooden handrail. Stained glass window on stairs has Crown and Mitre theme. Ballroom has 2 rows of painted stone composite columns and pilasters; coved aisles and musicians' gallery. Original plans and section dated 1902 are in Cumbria County Record Office (Ca/E4/13487). Carlisle Journal (1905), stated it was to open on 6th June and had cost "50,000. One of the shops at the right on the ground floor is No.54 Castle Street. (Carlisle Journal: 19 May 1905)."
evidence:-   site plan:- Middleton c1910
placename:-  Crown and Mitre Hotel
source data:-   Site plan, Crown and Mitre Hotel, Carlisle, Cumberland, scale about 1 to 880, by Oliver and Dodgshun, published by Caxton Publishing Co, Clun House, Surrey Street, London, about 1910.
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On vol.6 p.21 of Modern Buildings their Planning, Construction and Equipment, edited by G A T Middleton. 
printed, top  "CROWN &MITRE HOTEL - CARLISLE"
item:-  JandMN : 1003.2
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old drawing:- 
placename:-  Crown and Mitre Inn and Coffee House
source data:-   Drawing, Crown and Mitre Inn and Coffee House, Market Place, Carlisle, Cumberland, by Thomas Bushby, 1890s.
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View of the Crown and Mitre from the market square. Figures pass along the pavement or pause in conversation. 
signed at bottom right:-  "Thos Bushby"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1978.108.13
Image © Tullie House Museum
evidence:-   old painting:- 
placename:-  Crown and Mitre Hotel
source data:-   Painting, watercolour, The Old Crown and Mitre Hotel, Market Place, Carlisle, Cumberland, by Thomas Bushby, 1902.
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View of the Crown and Mitre Hotel from the market square. Figures pass along the pavement or pause in conversation. 
signed at bottom right:-  "Thos Bushby 1902"
inscribed at bottom left:-  "Sir Walter Scott's Lodging Place. The Old Crown and Mitre Hotel. English Street Carlisle. Established 1750. Demolished 1902."
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 2009.212
Image © Tullie House Museum

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