Edinburgh-based Simpson & Brown Architects’ £16m visitor centre for Lincoln Cathedral has topped the winners list in the 2023 RIBA East Midlands Awards.

As well as picking up a regional award, the project has also been named East Midlands Building of the Year. Four other schemes last night emerged as winners from the nine-strong shortlist announced in February.

Simpson & Brown’s visitor centre has seen the conversion of grade I-listed Lincoln Cathedral’s former 19^th century Deanery into a refectory, education centre, community rooms and offices. A new link building connects the Deanery to the cathedral cloisters and houses a shop and an exhibition hall where a 12^th century Romanesque frieze has been relocated from the cathedral’s West Front.

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