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George Wilkinson won a competition in 1835 to design a workhouse for the Thame Poor Law Union. [2] The building was until 2004 a campus of Oxford and Cherwell Valley College . Wilkinson went on to design a total of two dozen workhouses in England, including those at Northleach (1835) [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Stow-on-the-Wold (1836) [ 5 ] and Woodstock (1836 ...
Marks along one wall still remain where wooden benches and tables were affixed to it in the 19th century, when the building was a workhouse. [19] Accessible from an opening halfway along the cloister walk is the chapter house vestibule. [19] There was once an entrance arch which extended back 50 ft (15 m). [19]
As the 19th century wore on non-conformist ministers increasingly began to conduct services within the workhouse, but Catholic priests were rarely welcomed. [75] A variety of legislation had been introduced during the 17th century to limit the civil rights of Catholics, beginning with the Popish Recusants Act 1605 in the wake of the failed ...
Built in 1824, it was the prototype of the 19th-century workhouse, and was cited by the Royal Commission on the poor law as the best example among the existing workhouses, before the resulting New Poor Law of 1834 led to the construction of workhouses across the country.
19th-century architecture in the United States (16 C, 36 P) Buildings and structures completed in the 1800s (17 C) Buildings and structures completed in the 1810s (17 C)
Fulham Workhouse Infirmary. In 1883 Giles and Gough erected a pavilion-plan infirmary at the north of the workhouse site facing onto St Dunstan's road. It was a military hospital in the First World War. Now demolished to make way for the Charing Cross Hospital. [18] Christ Church, Gipsy Hill, London; New End Hospital, Hampstead. [19]
Stick-Eastlake architecture in the United States (1 C, 57 P) Pages in category "19th-century architecture in the United States" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
The Diseases Prevention Act of 1883 allowed workhouse infirmaries to offer treatment to non-paupers as well as inmates, and by the beginning of the 20th century some infirmaries were even able to operate as private hospitals. By the end of the century only about 20 per cent admitted to workhouses were unemployed or destitute, but about 30 per ...