Description

LINCOLN

SK97SE GREETWELL ROAD
1941-1/2/134 (North side)
15/08/73 Lincoln Prison cell blocks

II

Prison cell blocks. 1869-72, with later alterations. By
Frederick Peck of London. Brick with stone dressings and slate
roofs with clerestories and coped gables.
EXTERIOR: main block has 2 large broached octagonal roof vents
with machicolated tops. Windows are mainly segmental pointed.
Clerestories have 2-light mullioned windows.
Cruciform main block with octagonal centre, and cross wing to
east. South side, 28 bays, has a projecting centre to the
south gable with a 4-centred arched doorway flanked by 2-light
pointed arched windows. Above, 3 similar 2-light windows with
transoms, and above again, a round window and a clock.
Machicolated octagonal central tower has Early English style
pointed arched windows, 2 and 3 lights, in each of the exposed
angles. To west, a 19 bay wing and to right, a 12 bay wing,
each with a sanitary annexe on the north side.
To north, a gabled office wing, 3 storeys, with a large
3-light pointed arched window with double transoms on the
north side.
East wing, formerly the women's prison, 9 bays, has a
projecting centre to the north and south gables, each with a
large 3-light pointed arched window.
INTERIOR has a central octagonal hall with an arched principal
rafter wooden roof, formerly with a lantern. Cantilevered
galleries throughout, on brackets with pierced spandrels.
Lancet patterned pieced balustrades. Imperial stair with
twisted iron balusters, leading to the chapel in the south
wing. Chapel has an arch-braced queen post roof. Cells have
segmental vaults and doors with flaps and spyholes set in iron
frames.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 507-508).

Listing NGR: SK9903371950

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26668071

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