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Quiz on Listed Buildings and Architectural Heritage

This quiz tests your knowledge on listed buildings, architectural styles, and heritage protection in the UK and beyond.

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1 Ravelston Garden – ________ residential apartments

2 Craigellachie Bridge, ________ – designed by Thomas Telford and built 1812–1814

3 ________, City of London, is an example of a site which includes buildings of different Grades, II and II*

4 [10] Forty five per cent of Grade I buildings are ________ parish churches.

5 New Zealand Historic Places Trust (________ equivalent)

6 ________ and National Historic Landmark (American equivalents)

7 ________ (other parts of the castle are also listed A, B or C(s))

8 One example is the November 30, 2001, de-listing of North Corporation Primary School, ________.

9 [5] After the Firestone demolition, the Secretary of State for the Environment ________ also initiated a complete re-survey of buildings to ensure there was nothing which merited preservation and had been missed off the lists.

10 In ________, this complex system may be rationalised under the Heritage Protection Review (see below).

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the listed buildings of Marbury cum Quoisley in Cheshire, England, include an obelisk, a lychgate (pictured), a churchyard wall, and half a bridge.
  • the Carnegie Library in Runcorn, Cheshire, England, was designed in 1906 by the local council's surveyor and water engineer and is now a listed building.
  • the listed buildings in Poole, Cheshire, England, include a pinfold or cattle pound.
  • the Grade I-listed St. Bartholomew's Church, Brighton, England, was described as a "monster excrescence", "a cheese warehouse" and a "brick parallelogram" by some of its detractors at a heated Council meeting in 1893.
  • the gate piers of Ferne Park, a country house built in 2001 in Wiltshire, England, are Grade II listed structures.
  • the Grade I listed Franks Hall, in Horton Kirby, Kent, England, was used as a barn in the 1850s.
  • the Daily Express Building (pictured), an Art Deco former printing press, is one of Manchester's only listed buildings constructed in the 1930s.
  • the Lewes Free Presbyterian Church, affiliated with Ian Paisley's Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, occupies a listed building that was formerly a Strict Baptist chapel.
  • while Peover Hall in Cheshire, England (pictured), is a Grade II* listed building, its stable block is listed Grade I because of its elaborate internal architecture.
  • while the 19th-century writer Samuel Lewis described the Welsh church of St Mary, Tal-y-llyn (pictured) as "a small edifice of no interest", it is now one of the most highly rated listed buildings in the country.
  • there are 94 buildings with listed status in Crawley, England, including The Beehive, a circular Art Deco building that was the world's first integrated airport terminal.
  • the Vintners Parrot pub in Worthing, West Sussex, occupies a Grade II-listed Greek Revival-style former wine merchants premises and a Grade II-listed former Methodist chapel.
  • the 17 buildings with Category A listed status in Clackmannanshire, Scotland, include a glass cone.
  • the 24 buildings with Grade I listed status in Brighton and Hove, England, include the ruined West Pier—damaged by a succession of fires and storms.
  • modernist architect Peter Womersley (1923–1993) designed a house and studio for the textile designer Bernat Klein, both of which are now Category A listed buildings.
  • although Archibald Leitch was the foremost football stadium architect in the United Kingdom in the early 20th century, only two of his works have been listed for preservation.
  • Harrington Bridge is a listed building, except for the central section which crosses the River Trent into Derbyshire, England.
  • Labworth Café, built in 1932, is the only example of the architectural design of Ove Arup and was made a Listed building in 1996.
  • buildings with Grade II* listed status in Brighton and Hove, England, include the Royal Albion Hotel, wrecked in 1998 by a fire that started in a pan of sausages.
  • Fitznells Manor, the last surviving manor house in the borough of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey, UK, and a Grade 2 listed building, is now used by a medical practice.
  • listed buildings in Minshull Vernon, Cheshire, include five canal bridges, two aqueducts and a former privy.
  • listed structures in the parish of Acton in Cheshire include an aqueduct (pictured), sundial, icehouse, clock tower, telephone box and a statue of a dog upsetting a food bowl.
  • the range of buildings with listed status in Worthing, West Sussex, includes a lamp-post, a dovecote and a sculpture of four male heads.
  • Burgess Hill, Hadlow Down, Hastings, Newick, Pell Green, Rye, Shover's Green and Southover in Sussex each have a Grade II-listed former Baptist chapel which has been converted to residential use.
  • St Mary's Church in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, England, a Grade I listed building, was built in the 16th century and houses a stone cross dating to the 11th century.
  • St Mary's Church, Derwen, Denbighshire, Wales, is listed Grade I because it possesses an exceptionally complete rood screen and loft and otherwise retains much of its medieval character.
  • St Lawrence's Church, a listed building in Stoak, Cheshire, England, has a Tudor hammerbeam roof, a Jacobean altar, a Georgian pulpit, an Elizabethan chalice and chairs from the time of Charles II.
  • St Barnabas Church, one of the few Grade II*-listed churches in the city of Brighton and Hove, was dismissed by its architect John Loughborough Pearson as "one of my cheap editions".
  • Sheldon Manor, a Grade I listed building, is Wiltshire's longest continuously inhabited manor house.
  • St Baglan's Church, a medieval church in Llanfaglan, Gwynedd, Wales, is listed Grade I because it is unrestored, and has an exceptionally complete set of 18th-century furnishings.
  • listed building St Leonard's Church (pictured) in Brighton and Hove was on Church Road, but is now on New Church Road after another church was built.
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