Governor'S House And Old Prison And Chapel And Exercise Yard And Enclosing Wall

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