Courts have been held at Lincoln Castle since it was first built. Back then the sheriff, who was William the Conqueror’s right hand man in Lincolnshire, presided over the castle’s shire court. Today the Gothic Revival courthouse, built in 1826 for the Lincolnshire Assizes, is still a working building where criminal trials are heard by Lincoln Crown Court.
I’m not sure what the average size for court house. But our court house here doesn’t come close.
Coffee is on
Not all ours are this big.
Four-square and functional, by the look of it, Cherie
Very functional, the court was sitting on one of the days we were there. Some of the lawyers were walking around outside sporting wigs and there was one serious young man obviously regretting whatever it was he had done.
The ivy gives it gravitas.
I can’t claim its looks add to whatever passes for Justice in it though.
It is a fine building and I would love to take a peak inside to see what it looks like. As mentioned above it was open on one of the days we were there. I decided to keep out of the way
You may recall that Gothic/cathedral-influenced design is one of my favorites (close tie with Art Deco/Art Nouveau/Frank Lloyd Wright influence), so I dig the Gothic castle
However, not sure I feel the same way about that mid-century modern building “parked” in diagonally in front of it – seems someone went awry with not only poorly-attempting a FLW and Le Corbusier mix of a building, but in attempting the FLW idea of blending the modern into the past as a natural extension of the environment. It seems someone believed if they just put grass on the roof, it would achieve that same effect. Hmm, not so much lol. Perhaps if these two buildings hadn’t been in such close proximity it might have worked; otherwise, it seems disrespectful to the past, does that make sense?
Sorry, I told you, only two things I’m snobby about, films and architecture, forgive me (or them, I’m not sure who needs forgiveness lol)
Love that castle though!
Although the courthouse looks like a castle it is in fact a building within the castle walls. There are several different building styles within the castle walls, the one you don’t like at the front of the photo being the most modern. It is the Heritage Skills Centre and it was opened in 2013.
https://www.lincolncastle.com/heritageskillscentre
Aha, I see. Well, at least the courthouse building looks as if it belongs within the castle walls. And the modern one looks better from the view in your link. Perhaps it I’d love it in any other environment, just not sure it belongs in that setting with the others, or perhaps that’s just me that sees it that way. I hope I didn’t offend. The rest, including your photos posted today, just make a bit more sense to me in that environment
No I am not offended
The interesting thing is that if you walk along the pathway between the city gates the building is invisible due to the grass on the roof it is only when you walk around the courthouse to that part of the grounds that you can see the building at all.
I am not sure if I have a photo that shows what I mean…
Well that’s kinda cool. That’s what I meant by kind of an extension of FLW’s signature idea of “organic architecture” that the building should be an extension of the environment and blend within the environment rather than an assault upon it (but his idea was the the building itself should also blend with respect to the history of any surrounding structures as well.) So essentially, he made his distinct mark by finding a unique way to blend in
For example, have you ever seen FLW’s “Falling Water?”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallingwater
Here’s a better view of using vegetation in some areas as roofing. Giving this girl’s blog a plug, hope she won’t mind
http://www.gskenney.com/ginger/tag/frank-lloyd-wright/
I personally like his craftsman/prairie/mission style stuff better (especially with Japanese or Mayan influence) better than his modern stuff like Falling Water, but I “get it” with the organic-driven design, that’s a neat trick
That is a fascinating idea and there are some lovely photos of it the blog link you have given
A wonderful building and I like the concept of the grass on the roofs… we have some buildings doing the same..
It is quite clever in that from the main angle you do not realise that a building is there!