page_title: William Watkins (architect)
section_title: Public buildings
hierarchical_section_title: William Watkins (architect) / Works include / Public buildings
caption_attribution_description: English: YMCA Worcester Worcester's YMCA stands on Henwick Road and is a large Victorian building.
context_page_description: William Watkins was an architect who worked in Lincoln, England, and is particularly noted for his Terracotta Revival Architecture.
context_section_description: It is suggested by Antram that the Lincoln Drill Hall was by Watkins The attribution is incorrect – the architect was Henry Goddard.
  Royal Albert Orphanage, Henwick, Worcester.  1868. The building cost £5,000 and the contract was won by Watkins in open competition. Funds were raised for the construction of permanent premises for the institution, with a donation of £4,000 being received from local MP Alderman Richard Padmore, and legacy of £1,000 in 1866 from Mr Edward Wheeler. A site was obtained on Henwick Road, Worcester, and a competition held for designs for the new building. The plans put forward by William Watkins and Samuel Dutton Walker were chosen.
  Grantham Guildhall, Grantham. 1867–69. This is an early work by Watkins in an Italianate/ Jacobethan  revival style with stone dressing and florid Corinthian columns  surmounted by a clock tower giving a heavy and ungainly appearance. The Guildhall, as originally designed, was made up of three separate buildings – the main building, which housed a ballroom and courtroom (or session's hall); a governor's residence and a gaol for up to 18 men and women on two floors. The work was carried out Mr Wartnaby, of Little Gonerby, for £7,260. In 1991 it was redesigned by the Sleaford architect Tim Benton and re-opened as the council owned Guildhall Arts Centre at a cost of £1.2 million.
  The Market Hall, Corn Exchange and Fish Market, Doncaster. The impressive facade and arched Exchange buildings were built to the designs of Watkins]] of Lincoln, who won an architectural competition in 1870. It is set within an earlier U shaped Market Hall structure of 1847-9 by J Butterfield, the architect to Doncaster Corporation. The Corn Market, Market Hall and Fish Markets were further extended in 1930 and the overall complex is Grade II listed. The Corn Exchange has advanced central and side bays with projecting stonework to corners, acting as plinths for clasping) corner pilasters and adjacent engaged red sandstone columns to first floor. The balustrade to front has a plinth inscribed Wm Cotterill Clark Mayor 1873. The interior of the  corn exchange is  very elaborate with  a gallery supported on a round arched arcade with alternating plain and panelled pilasters between the arches. Galleries to sides have paired iron columns with foliate capitals supported by  round arches of pierced ironwork with sumptuous decoration to the spandrels. Roof with iron arched trusses with decorative bracing,  with a large central ridge light supported on foliate trusses.
  General Dispensary, Silver Street, Lincoln. 1879. By Watkins and Scorer. (This was on the south side of Silver Street and was demolished about 1963.)
   
  Outpatients at Lincoln County Hospital, Sewell Road, Lincoln. 1891.
  Masonic Hall and Concert Room, Newland, Lincoln (1871).Originally built for the Masonic Hall Company. This was not a successful venture and the project became insolvent around 1888. Gothic revival style. Later Palace Theatre and then Plaza Cinema. It was demolished as a result of a fire in the 2nd World War.
  Constitutional Club, on corner of Broadgate with Silver Street, Lincoln 1895. With a domed circular vestibule at the corner and enriched with terracotta work presumably from Ruabon.
  County Assembly Rooms, Bailgate, Lincoln. 1914.  Watkins added a new facade to this building with a Venetian window set in the gable above the entrance. The building contains a fine interior dating from 1745
caption: Royal Albert Orphanage, Worcester
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