Custom House, Lancaster

Museum building in Lancaster, Lancashire, England

Custom House

The front of the Custom House

Location within Lancaster

Alternative names| Maritime Museum
General information
Architectural style| Palladian[1]
Address| St George's Quay, Lancaster
Coordinates| 54°03′13″N 2°48′19″W﻿ / ﻿54.0537°N 2.8053°W﻿ / 54.0537; -2.8053
Renovated| 1983–84
Design and construction
Architect(s)| Richard Gillow

Listed Building – Grade II*

Official name| Maritime Museum
Designated| 22 December 1953
Reference no.| 1289088

The Custom House is a grade II* listed building located on St Georges Quay, Lancaster, Lancashire, England.[1] The architect was Richard Gillow of the Gillow furniture making family. Designed in 1764 for the Port Commissioners, it was used for its original purpose until 1882 when the Customs were transferred to Barrow-in-Furness.

## Lancaster Maritime Museum

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The Custom House has housed the Lancaster Maritime Museum since 1985.[1] Adjacent to the Custom House is a later bonded warehouse, which forms part of the Maritime Museum.[2]

The museum's exhibits include local fishing vessels, ship models, area merchants and trade, including the slave trade, the Lancaster Canal, area fishing industry, the development of the local ports of Glasson, Heysham, Sunderland Point, and Morecambe, and the social and natural history of Morecambe Bay.[3]

## See also

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* Lancashire portal

* Grade II* listed buildings in Lancashire
* Listed buildings in Lancaster, Lancashire
* Sandside, Beetham

## References

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1. ^ a b c Historic England. "Maritime Museum, Lancaster (1289088)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
2. ^ "Lancaster Maritime Museum". Retrieved 12 September 2014.
3. ^ "Lancaster Maritime Museum". Lancaster City Council. Archived from the original on 14 September 2014. Retrieved 14 September 2014.

## External links

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* Lancaster Maritime Museum

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Buildings and structures in the City of Lancaster

Grade I|

* Ashton Hall
* Ashton Memorial
* Borwick Hall
* Burrow Hall
* Claughton Hall
* Cockersand Abbey
* Cockersand Abbey chapter house
* Hornby Castle
* Judges' Lodgings
* Lancaster Castle
* Lancaster Priory
* Lune Aqueduct
* Old Rectory
* St Oswald's Vicarage
* Thurnham Hall

* Churches Gressingham: St John the Evangelist
* Heysham: St Patrick
* St Peter
* Hornby: St Margaret
* Melling: St Wilfrid
* Tunstall: St John the Baptist

Grade II*|

* Capernwray Hall
* Custom House
* Lancaster City Museum
* Lancaster Moor Hospital
* Lancaster Town Hall
* Leighton Hall
* Loyn Bridge
* Midland Hotel
* Morecambe Winter Gardens
* Quernmore Park
* Royal Albert Hospital
* Skerton Bridge
* Thurland Castle
* Whittington Hall

* Churches Arkholme: St John the Baptist
* Bolton-le-Sands: Holy Trinity
* Brookhouse: St Paul
* Cockerham: St Michael
* Lancaster: Cathedral
* Ripley School
* St John the Evangelist
* Over Kellet: St Cuthbert
* Overton: St Helen
* Silverdale: St John
* Tatham: St James the Less
* Whittington: St Michael

Grade II|

* Abbeystead House
* Cockerham Vicarage
* Conder Bridge
* The Dukes
* Greaves Park Hotel
* Grand Theatre
* Grizedale Bridge
* Hornby Village Institute
* Lancaster Carriage and Wagon Works
* Lancaster (Greaves) railway station
* Lancaster Moor Hospital
* Lancaster railway station
* Lancaster Royal Grammar School
* Leck Hall
* Lindeth Tower
* Littledale Hall
* Morecambe and Heysham War Memorial
* Queen Victoria Memorial
* The Storey
* The Stork
* Wennington Hall
* Windermere House

* Churches Borwick: St Mary
* Capernwray: Chapel
* Claughton: St Chad
* Dolphinholme: St Mark
* Ellel: St John
* Glasson: Christ
* Halton-on-Lune: St Wilfrid
* Lancaster: Christ
* Cemetery
* St Paul, Scotforth
* St Thomas
* Leck: St Peter
* Morecambe: Holy Trinity
* St John the Divine
* St Laurence
* Over Wyresdale: Christ
* Quernmore: St Peter
* Slyne-with-Hest St Luke
* Tatham: Good Shepherd
* Warton: St Oswald
* Yealand Conyers: St John the Evangelist
* St Mary

Unlisted|

* Carlisle Bridge
* Carnforth MPD
* Carnforth War Memorial
* Escowbeck
* The Gregson Centre
* Greyhound Bridge
* HM Prison Lancaster Farms
* Hazelwood Hall
* Heysham nuclear power station
* Lancaster bus station
* Langthwaite Filter House
* Lune Millennium Bridge
* Phoenix Street drill hall
* Plover Scar Lighthouse
* Stone Jetty
* Three Brothers

* Churches Aughton: St Saviour
* Lancaster: St Michael, Lancaster Moor Hospital
* King's Community
* Morecambe: Clark Street Congregational
* St Barnabas
* St Christopher, Bare
* Wray: Holy Trinity

Demolished|

* Aldcliffe Hall
* Central Pier, Morecambe
* Cockerham Priory
* Hornby Priory
* Lancaster Friary
* Lancaster Roman Fort
* North Western Hotel
* Over Burrow Roman Fort
* Old Loyne Bridge
* West End Pier, Morecambe
* Wyresdale Abbey

Listed
buildings
in|

* Arkholme-with-Cawood
* Bolton-le-Sands
* Borwick
* Burrow-with-Burrow
* Cantsfield
* Carnforth
* Caton-with-Littledale
* Claughton
* Cockerham
* Ellel
* Gressingham
* Halton-with-Aughton
* Heaton-with-Oxcliffe
* Heysham
* Hornby-with-Farleton
* Ireby
* Lancaster
* Leck
* Melling-with-Wrayton
* Middleton
* Morecambe
* Nether Kellet
* Over Kellet
* Over Wyresdale
* Overton
* Priest Hutton
* Quernmore
* Roeburndale
* Scotforth
* Silverdale
* Slyne-with-Hest
* Tatham
* Thurnham
* Tunstall
* Warton
* Wennington
* Whittington
* Wray-with-Botton
* Yealand Conyers
* Yealand Redmayne

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