Assize Courts
ASSIZE COURTS, CASTLE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1388488
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Assize Courts
- Statutory Address:
- ASSIZE COURTS, CASTLE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1388488
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Assize Courts
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASSIZE COURTS, CASTLE HILL
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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:
- ASSIZE COURTS, CASTLE HILL
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 97432 71900
Details
LINCOLN
SK9771NW CASTLE HILL
1941-1/8/64 Assize Courts
08/10/53
GV II*
Assize courts. 1823. By Sir Robert Smirke. South entrance
porch early C20. Ashlar with slate roofs and 4 coped ashlar
side wall stacks. Crenellated Gothick style.
EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth, eaves bands, parapets, crenellated
octagonal corner turrets. 2 storeys, 9 bays. Pointed arched
windows with hoodmoulds.
Projecting centre, 3 bays, has a central four-centred arched
doorway with multiple flanking shafts, and above, three
2-light windows. Above them, in the parapet, the Royal arms.
On either side, an arcaded passage, 5 bays, ending in a square
pavilion with a single lancet. In each passage, five 2-light
windows, and at each end, a door with a lamp bracket above it.
Above, on either side, 3 smaller lancets.
North and south ends have buttresses and 5 single lancets.
South end has a hipped single storey porch, L-plan.
Rear elevation has 2 wings, 3 bays, roofed parallel to the
main range, and flanking a lower centre. All have parapets.
The inner gables of the wings have each 3 lancets with
latticed iron glazing bars.
INTERIOR: entrance has 3 chamfered pointed arched openings to
the central stairway. The outer arches have glazed screens.
Both courtrooms have stepped stone floors, Gothick friezes
with blind arcading and shafts above, and cross beamed
ceilings with dogtooth decoration.
Criminal Court (No.1) has a moulded cornice with angel
corbels.
Civil Court (No.2) has corbels and frieze only above the
judge's seat. Both courts have arcaded panelled enclosures for
the magistrates and ogee canopies over the judges' seats.
Above, panelled galleries with C20 octagonal piers. C20
panelled wooden fittings and seats. No.1 Court has the C19
dock.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 506).
Listing NGR: SK9743271900
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485933
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 506
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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