Town Hall

The Town Hall is a yellow stone building featuring pink pilasters, columns, and decorative elements, topped with a balustraded parapet that has a bracketed and dentilled cornice. Constructed in 1867-68 by Bellamy and Hardy of Lincoln, it exemplifies high Victorian civic architecture. The building has two storeys and a sub-basement, which becomes a lower ground storey on Princes Street. The central section, which has three windows, projects forward and is adorned with an arcade of Corinthian columns on the first storey and a Roman Doric colonnade with vermiculated rustications on the ground storey. Access to the portico is via a flight of stone steps. The balustraded parapet features four standing female figures, and behind it, the central section rises to an attic storey with a modillioned cornice, a central window, and flanking bulls-eye windows. Above this is a stone dome topped with a clock tower and cupola. The front has a nine-window range arranged in three groups of three, while the Princes Street side has a six-window range, all featuring double-hung sashes without glazing bars. The first storey windows are semi-circular arched with Corinthian pilasters, coved splays, segmental balustraded balconies, and roundels above the arches, with heads in the roundels of the central part. The ground storey windows are framed by Baroque architraves and set between Roman Doric pilasters with vermiculated rustications. A modillion cornice separates the storeys, and the sub-basement serves as a rusticated plinth for the building. The roof is slate and hipped. The building was cleaned in 1971. The Town Hall, along with Nos 7, 8, 13 & 15, the Golden Lion Hotel, and the Post Office, forms a group, as does the Town Hall with The Corn Exchange on King Street.