Lincoln - Saracen's Head Hotel & Old Stonebow - art postcard 1936 pmk

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  • Picture / Image:  Saracen's Head Hotel and Old Stoebow, [Lincoln]
  • Publisher:  none stated
  • Postally used:  yes
  • Stamp:  George V 1d scarlet
  • Postmark(s):  Lincoln 24 Sep 1936 wavy line
  • Sent to:  Miss B. Smith, 154 Newmarket Road, Norwich, Norfolk
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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The Guildhall and Stonebow, Lincoln has been the meeting place of the Lincoln City Council from Medieval times to the present. The term ‘‘Stonebow’’ indicates a stone archway that visitors entering the city from the south, along the High Street, would have passed through. The present building was completed around 1520, but has been subject to alterations in about 1840 and in 1885-90.^[1]

The Stonebow is built from the local limestone. The exterior has crenellated parapets on both sides. South front has a roll moulded segmental central arch flanked by single round buttresses with canopied niches containing figures. Above, a tablet with pilaster surround with the arms of James I, and above again, two 2-light mullioned windows. Over them, there is a stepped gable containing a clock. On either side of the main arch there are two walkway arches, those to the right original, with hoodmoulds.

The North side has a plainer central arch, flanked by a single walkway arch to left and 2 to the right. Over the inner archways, small 2-light windows. Above, three 2-light pointed arched windows and parapet gable with clock.^[2]

Sometime about 1840 the Lincoln architect W A Nicholson made extensive alterations to the east end of the Stonebow, when the building that housed the old City prison was pulled down.^[3][4][5] Nicholson observed that the Roman wall of the Lower Colonia in Lincoln was to the North of the Stonebow and was still standing to the height of about 15 feet. This suggests that the Stonebow was a Barbican, that had been built forward of the Roman southern gateway. Nicholson appears to have been the architect responsible for the present building to the east of the Stonebow completed about 1844 which now contains the Mayor's Parlour and the display of Civic regalia. Further alterations took place 1885-90 by the architect J. L.Pearson, who was responsible for alterations on the west side of the Stonebow. Pearson created an additional passageway arch and the shop units under the arch.^[6]