The former Fanny Marshall Memorial Institute was the subject of a programme of historic building recording, conducted in January 2020 to inform its proposed conversion to residential use. The Institute was built by James Marshall in honour of his wife Fanny, and was opened in 1896 by Edward King, the Bishop of Lincoln. It was built to provide facilities for the betterment of the local community, and included a library, reading room, games room, and a free public gymnasium, which was a later extension at the rear of the building. The structure was of two storeys, with a black slate roof and chimneys at the north and south ends. The main construction of the building was in red brick with sandstone detailing around the windows and doors. The main façade was the eastern elevation along Church Street. This elevation had the main entranceway and triple bay windows on the ground and first floors. Each window was separated by an upright stone pilaster. At the roof level of the central bay was a stone inscribed with the name of the building, and above that a clock and a carved stone cross. The southern elevation was much simpler, with Roman arch windows and some stone detailing. The gymnasium extension had been attached to the western elevation of the main building, although this part had been demolished shortly prior to the commencement of the recording. It was visible in Google Street View images of 2018, however, where it could be seen to be a large, 2 storey red brick extension with some sandstone detailing and a matching black slate roof. It had a row of windows at 1st floor level, and the interior was presumably a single open space. On the southern elevation, close to the join with the original Institute building, was an entrance to the gymnasium with an inscribed stone sign above the door that said 'Gymnasium'. Inside the main Institute building, the ground floor had two rooms on either side of east to west aligned hallway. The room on the left hand side of the corridor was the reading room. The south wall had a fireplace and windows, and there were more windows in the east wall. The larger room on the right hand side of the corridor was the library. It had a fireplace with blue decorations in the north wall, with windows that faced east. There were also circular windows that faced into the corridor. Carved wooden stairs led to the 1st floor games room, which was one large room accessed through green double doors from the stairs. It had a carved, wooden painted ceiling and a fireplace in the southern wall decorated with crosses. The Fanny Marshall Institute closed in the mid 20th century. The building was later used as a furniture and bed shop before sitting vacant for several decades. Much of the interior was in poor condition at the time of the survey. {1}{2}{3}