Lincoln Prison Cell Blocks
LINCOLN PRISON CELL BLOCKS, GREETWELL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388559
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Lincoln Prison Cell Blocks
- Statutory Address:
- LINCOLN PRISON CELL BLOCKS, GREETWELL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388559
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Lincoln Prison Cell Blocks
- Statutory Address 1:
- LINCOLN PRISON CELL BLOCKS, GREETWELL ROAD
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:
- LINCOLN PRISON CELL BLOCKS, GREETWELL ROAD
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 99033 71950
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486004
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 507-508
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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