LINCOLN PRISON CELL BLOCKS

LINCOLN PRISON CELL BLOCKS, GREETWELL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1388559
Date first listed:: 14-Aug-1973
List Entry Name:: LINCOLN PRISON CELL BLOCKS
Statutory Address:: LINCOLN PRISON CELL BLOCKS, GREETWELL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1388559
Date first listed:: 14-Aug-1973
List Entry Name:: LINCOLN PRISON CELL BLOCKS
Statutory Address 1:: LINCOLN PRISON CELL BLOCKS, GREETWELL ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: LINCOLN PRISON CELL BLOCKS, GREETWELL ROAD

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 99033 71950

Details

LINCOLN

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

II

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

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Legacy System number:: 486004
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 507-508

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.