Lincolnshire College Of Art And Design

Lincolnshire College of Art and Design, formerly Christ Hospital Girls' School, was built in 1893 with additions in 1911, designed by William Watkins of Lincoln. The building is constructed of brick with terracotta dressings and a slate roof, featuring two gable and six side wall stacks. It is designed in a Renaissance Revival free style.

The building has a complex, irregular plan composed of a symmetrical main block and flanking wings, linked by a three-story range to a gabled western block. The exterior is characterized by moulded bands, terracotta friezes with cartouches, a bracketed corbel table, coped gables with scroll brackets (to the main block), and stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. The main block features a central doorway flanked by mullioned windows with round heads. Above are ogee-headed mullioned windows and elliptical-headed windows with superimposed triple lights. The left wing has cross casements, while the right wing, three stories high, features pilasters and cross casements on the lower floors and mullioned casements above. A smaller, set-back wing adjoins the right wing. To the left is a linking range, and beyond it, a three-story western block with pilasters and mullioned and transomed windows. Porches with segmental pediments inscribed with Latin inscriptions and dated 1911 are located to the south-east and west. A stepped staircase corridor with a parapet and ten round-headed windows is on the west side. To the north-west is a hall with elliptical arched windows and, above, lozenge-shaped windows, and a large round window in the west gable.

The interior features a stone dogleg staircase with a terracotta balustrade and rubbed brick elliptical arches. The main hall has an elliptical arched arcade and an upper gallery with segmental arched openings. Modern galleries and a proscenium are present at the ends. The hall’s roof is an elaborate pseudo-hammer beam structure with arch braces, traceried spandrels and pendant drops.