Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Assize Courts at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17548921

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