Lincoln Prison Cell Blocks

LINCOLN

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

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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