Governor's House and Old Prison and Chapel and Exercise Yard and Enclosing Wall
GOVERNOR'S HOUSE AND OLD PRISON AND CHAPEL AND EXERCISE YARD AND ENCLOSING WALL, CASTLE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1388489
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Governor's House and Old Prison and Chapel and Exercise Yard and Enclosing Wall
- Statutory Address:
- GOVERNOR'S HOUSE AND OLD PRISON AND CHAPEL AND EXERCISE YARD AND ENCLOSING WALL, CASTLE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1388489
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Governor's House and Old Prison and Chapel and Exercise Yard and Enclosing Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- GOVERNOR'S HOUSE AND OLD PRISON AND CHAPEL AND EXERCISE YARD AND ENCLOSING WALL, CASTLE HILL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GOVERNOR'S HOUSE AND OLD PRISON AND CHAPEL AND EXERCISE YARD AND ENCLOSING WALL, CASTLE HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- Lincoln (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 97504 71837
Details
LINCOLN
SK9771NW CASTLE HILL
1941-1/8/63 Governor's house, Old prison,
08/10/53 Chapel, Exercise yard and enclosing
wall
GV II*
Governor's house, old prison, chapel, exercise yard and
enclosing wall. Now the City Magistrates' Courts and
Lincolnshire Archives Office.
Governor's House, 1787, by John Carr and William Lumby. Old
prison 1847 by Nicholson & Goddard. Brick with stone dressings
and hipped slate roofs.
EXTERIOR: Governor's house has plinth, blind arcaded ground
floor, first floor sill band, quoins, eaves cornice and
parapet. 5 side wall and 5 ridge stacks. 3 storeys, with a 7
bay centre flanked by 2 bay wings. All the central openings
have rusticated surrounds. Most of the second floor windows
are barred. Central part-glazed door with multiple keystones,
flanked by 2 glazing bar sashes and beyond, single beaded
panelled doors with overlights. Above, 7 glazing bar sashes.
Above again, 7 smaller sashes. The wings have similar
fenestration. Ends have regular fenestration with several
blanks.
Old prison, 3 storeys, 15 bays, has coped gables and 2 large
ridge stacks. Chamfered segment headed barred windows. South
side has a central canted bay window with parapet, 3 storeys,
with 8 iron framed glazing bar windows on each floor. On
either side, 7 windows on each floor. Flanking the bay window
on either side, a stone coped brick wall with 2 segment headed
doorways. There are traces of similar walls which formerly
divided the exercise yard into sectors. At the west end, a
full-height canted bay window with stone mullions and iron
glazing bars. In it, a central segment headed door. North side
has a canted 2 storey off-centre bay window, and regular
fenestration with some blocked openings.
The single storey chapel links the Governor's house to the old
prison. Semicircular ashlar enclosing wall has a chamfered
stone coping and 5 segment headed doorways.
INTERIOR: cantilevered stone dogleg stairs with iron
balusters, beaded panelled doors with glazing bar overlights.
Many of the doors have peepholes. The chapel has very unusual
tiers of linked individual cells for the prisoners. The
Governor's house formerly served as a debtors' prison. The
buildings show important changes in the detail and philosophy
of prison design.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 506).
Listing NGR: SK9750471837
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485934
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 506
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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