1872 – Lindsey County Gaol, Lincoln

Built in 1868-72 to serve the Lindsey division of Lincolnshire and causing the closure of three other Lindsey prisons. The buildings, constructed in red brick, with an entrance block with large gateway and castellated towers. The Gatekeeper’s and Chief Warder’s houses were on the left and the Governor’s house on the right of this entrance. The main building had a radial-style layout with two four-storey cell wings designed to house 213 inmates. That for males ran west from the central hall, and the shorter one for females ran to the east. Unusually, the cell wings had clerestory windows above the corridors. A third wing, to the south, contained the men’s reception, offices, and a chapel above, which was large enough to hold all the inmates. Four warders’ quarters were provided in a row of stone cottages at the north-west of the site. Various additions were subsequently made to the buildings, and it is now HMP Lincoln.