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Latitude: 53.2354 / 53°14'7"N
Longitude: -0.5177 / 0°31'3"W
OS Eastings: 499033
OS Northings: 371950
OS Grid: SK990719
Mapcode National: GBR FMR.1YH
Mapcode Global: WHGJ0.0YR2
Plus Code: 9C5X6FPJ+4W
Entry Name: Lincoln Prison Cell Blocks
Listing Date: 15 August 1973
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1388559
English Heritage Legacy ID: 486004
ID on this website: 101388559
Location: St Giles, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2
County: Lincolnshire
District: Lincoln
Electoral Ward/Division: Abbey
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Lincoln
Traditional County: Lincolnshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lincolnshire
Church of England Parish: Lincoln St Giles
Church of England Diocese: Lincoln
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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
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