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Governor's House and Old Prison and Chapel and Exercise Yard and Enclosing Wall

A Grade II* Listed Building in Lincoln, Lincolnshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.2346 / 53°14'4"N

Longitude: -0.5406 / 0°32'26"W

OS Eastings: 497504

OS Northings: 371837

OS Grid: SK975718

Mapcode National: GBR FMQ.84J

Mapcode Global: WHGHZ.NYRN

Plus Code: 9C5X6FM5+VQ

Entry Name: Governor's House and Old Prison and Chapel and Exercise Yard and Enclosing Wall

Listing Date: 8 October 1953

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1388489

English Heritage Legacy ID: 485934

Also known as: Governor's House, Lincoln Castle

ID on this website: 101388489

Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1

County: Lincolnshire

District: Lincoln

Electoral Ward/Division: Castle

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Lincoln

Traditional County: Lincolnshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lincolnshire

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LINCOLN

SK9771NW CASTLE HILL
1941-1/8/63 Governor's house, Old prison,
08/10/53 Chapel, Exercise yard and enclosing
wall

GV II*

Governor's house, old prison, chapel, exercise yard and
enclosing wall. Now the City Magistrates' Courts and
Lincolnshire Archives Office.
Governor's House, 1787, by John Carr and William Lumby. Old
prison 1847 by Nicholson & Goddard. Brick with stone dressings
and hipped slate roofs.
EXTERIOR: Governor's house has plinth, blind arcaded ground
floor, first floor sill band, quoins, eaves cornice and
parapet. 5 side wall and 5 ridge stacks. 3 storeys, with a 7
bay centre flanked by 2 bay wings. All the central openings
have rusticated surrounds. Most of the second floor windows
are barred. Central part-glazed door with multiple keystones,
flanked by 2 glazing bar sashes and beyond, single beaded
panelled doors with overlights. Above, 7 glazing bar sashes.
Above again, 7 smaller sashes. The wings have similar
fenestration. Ends have regular fenestration with several
blanks.
Old prison, 3 storeys, 15 bays, has coped gables and 2 large
ridge stacks. Chamfered segment headed barred windows. South
side has a central canted bay window with parapet, 3 storeys,
with 8 iron framed glazing bar windows on each floor. On
either side, 7 windows on each floor. Flanking the bay window
on either side, a stone coped brick wall with 2 segment headed
doorways. There are traces of similar walls which formerly
divided the exercise yard into sectors. At the west end, a
full-height canted bay window with stone mullions and iron
glazing bars. In it, a central segment headed door. North side
has a canted 2 storey off-centre bay window, and regular
fenestration with some blocked openings.
The single storey chapel links the Governor's house to the old
prison. Semicircular ashlar enclosing wall has a chamfered
stone coping and 5 segment headed doorways.
INTERIOR: cantilevered stone dogleg stairs with iron
balusters, beaded panelled doors with glazing bar overlights.
Many of the doors have peepholes. The chapel has very unusual
tiers of linked individual cells for the prisoners. The
Governor's house formerly served as a debtors' prison. The
buildings show important changes in the detail and philosophy
of prison design.


(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 506).

Listing NGR: SK9750471837

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