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LINCOLN
SK9771NE LINDUM ROAD
1941-1/9/199 (North West side)
15/08/73 Lincolnshire College of Art & Design
GV II
Formerly known as: Christ Hospital Girls' School LINDUM ROAD.
Former girls' school, now a College of Art. 1893, with
additions 1911, by William Watkins of Lincoln. Brick with
terracotta dressings and slate roof with 2 gable and 6 side
wall stacks. Renaissance Revival free style.
EXTERIOR/PLAN: moulded bands, friezes with cartouches,
bracketed corbel table, coped gables, those to the main block
with scroll brackets. Irregular plan, with symmetrical main
block and flanking wings, linked by a 3 storey range to a
gabled western block.
Main block has a central doorway flanked by single 3-light
mullioned windows, all with round heads. Above, 3 ogee headed
mullioned windows. Above and behind, 3 elliptical headed
windows with superimposed triple lights. Left wing has 2 cross
casements on each floor. Right wing, 3 storeys, has pilasters.
On the lower floors, 2 cross casements, and above, 2 mullioned
casements. To its right, a smaller set back wing.
To left, a set back linking range, 2 bays, and beyond, west
block, 3 storeys, with pilasters and mullioned and transomed
windows. To south-east and to west, porches with segmental
pediments with Latin inscriptions, dated 1911. West side has a
stepped staircase corridor with parapet and 10 round headed
windows.
To north-west, hall, 6 bays, with 4 elliptical arched windows
and above, 6 lozenge shaped windows. In the west gable, a
large round window.
INTERIOR has a stone dogleg staircase with terracotta
balustrade and rubbed brick elliptical arches. Main hall has
an elliptical arched arcade, and a gallery above with
segmental arched arcade. C20 gallery and proscenium at the
ends. Elaborate pseudo-hammer beam roof with arch braces,
traceried spandrels and drops.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 509; Curl JS: The Victorian Facade (W Watkins &
Son, Architects, Lincoln): Lincoln: 1990-: 41-42).
Listing NGR: SK9791371607