Learning in Lincoln: a history of the city's education buildings

Lincoln has many fascinating school and education buildings. Most of these have been built over the past two centuries to serve the needs of different types of students, from infants to adult learners. 

Chapters in this multi-authored collection explore a wide variety of school buildings, some designed by architects with national reputations, others erected as ‘temporary structures’ which ended up accommodating several generations of schoolchildren. 

The chapters’ authors examine buildings constructed by education providers ranging from the Church of England, Wesleyan Methodists and Roman Catholics to the state. 

The book also explores how the city has provided for learners beyond school age, from the nineteenth century onwards. Amongst others, apprentice engineers, trainee offi ce workers, as well as aspiring teachers and members of the clergy have learnt in Lincoln, alongside of course the students of the city’s present-day universities and colleges.

CONTENTS

Introduction  ANDREW WALKER

A. SCHOOLS

• A brief history of Christ’s Hospital in Lincoln  PETER HARROD 

• The provision of government grants for school building in Victorian Lincoln  NICHOLAS MOORE 

• The Victorian school: what the buildings tell us  ROB WHEELER 

• North District National School  LESLEY CHURCH 

• St Peter-in-Eastgate School  LESLEY CHURCH 

• The Wesleyan Day Schools, Rosemary Lane  SHIRLEY BROOK 

• The use of architectural competitions and the city’s early education buildings  ARTHUR WARD 

• Lincoln’s Grammar School that was never built  NICHOLAS MOORE

• Lincoln’s temporary school buildings and the Fourth Northern General Hospital  ANDREW WALKER 

• Private school provision in the city, c. 1890-1939  ANDREW WALKER 

• The use of schools within Lincoln as ‘Rest Centres’ during the Second World War  DERWIN GREGORY 

• Catholic school provision in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries  CHRIS BURKE 

• Secondary education in Lincoln in the twentieth century  MICHELLE CARTWRIGHT 

• Pioneering lessons? The post-war expansion of primary education provision  ANDREW WALKER 

• St. Faith’s Church of England Infant and Nursery School. A golden jubilee, 1974 to 2024  NIGEL HORNER 

• Special schools, inclusive education and alternative provision  NIGEL HORNER & ANDREW WALKER

B. COLLEGES, UNIVERSITIES, VOCATIONAL AND ADULT EDUCATION

• The premises of the Mechanics’ Institute  LESLEY CLARKE 

• Theological College and University: The Old County Hospital building 1880 – 2013  CHRIS ROBINSON 

• Buildings Associated with Nurse Education in Lincoln  LESLEY CHURCH 

• Lincoln Diocesan Training College: the early years, 1862-1900  W. JACK RHODEN & ELAINE JOHNSON

• Lincoln Diocesan Training College: Developments, 1900-1950  HAZEL KENT & ABIGAIL WHITE

• The University of Lincoln’s Brayford Pool Campus  ABIGAIL HUNT 

• Building Lincoln College  ANDREW WALKER 

• Adult education  NAOMI FIELD 

• Map  DAVE WATT 

The work is dedicated to the memory of Maurice Hodson (1931–2023).