Description

LINCOLN

SK9771SE BROADGATE
1941-1/12/51 (West side)
08/10/53 Greyfriars' Museum

GV I

Remains of the infirmary of the Franciscan friary. c1230 and
late C13, with mid C19 additions. Converted to a mechanics'
institute 1883, and restored and converted to a museum
1905-1907 by William Watkins. Dressed stone and brick, with
ashlar dressings, plain tile and slate roofs with a C19 brick
side wall stack.
EXTERIOR: chamfered eaves, coped gables, with cross to east.
Undercroft plus upper storey.
Main building, 9 bays, has 7 C19 buttresses and 8 C19 double
chamfered barred windows. Above, nine 2-light windows with
chamfered surrounds. To left, a lozenge-shaped datestone,
1833.
East end has, above, a C13 3-light window with Y-tracery, and
an oval window above it. West end has angle buttresses and a
C20 Tudor arched 3-light window. North side has a C19 2 storey
lean-to stair enclosure.
Mid C19 addition to east, single storey, has a central door
flanked by single windows, all pointed.
INTERIOR: undercroft, 9 bays long by 2 bays wide, has
octagonal piers and responds with moulded capitals and bases,
single chamfered ribs and small bosses. North side has 6
blocked windows to east and doorway to west. Upper floor has
to north a C13 door and 3 round headed windows, all blocked,
and a fireplace with shouldered lintel. North-east corner has
a pointed recess. Restored common rafter roof with arch braces
to east and scissor braces to west, both with double collars.
This building is said to be the earliest surviving building in
England of the Franciscan order. Scheduled monument, County
No.25.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 508-509; York Archaeological Papers: Stocker
DA: The remains of the Franciscan friary in Lincoln (etc):
York: 1984-; Hewett C: English Cathedral and Monastic
Carpentry: 1985-).

Listing NGR: SK9775971248

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q99735905

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