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Belfast Union Workhouse was established along with the Poor Law Union under the Poor Relief (Ireland) Act 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 56). The buildings on Lisburn Road in Belfast were designed by George Wilkinson, who, having designed many workhouses in England, had now become the architect for the Poor Law Commission in Ireland. [3]
Thomas Allom's design for St Mary Abbots workhouse in Kensington, London, is noticeably different from those produced by Sampson Kempthorne a decade earlier. A second major wave of workhouse construction began in the mid-1860s, the result of a damning report by the Poor Law inspectors on the conditions found in infirmaries in London and the ...
The workhouse test was a condition of the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834. It stated that anyone who wanted to get poor relief must enter a workhouse . The condition was never implemented in Britain and outdoor relief continued to be given. [ 1 ]
He designed workhouses in Abingdon, Andover, Bath, Crediton, Hastings, and Newhaven. He also designed some Gothic churches, including Holy Trinity (1834–35) (destroyed by bombing in 1940) and All Saints (1839), both in Rotherhithe , [ 2 ] and St James, in Upton Street, Gloucester, originally built as a chapel-of-ease to the nearby church of ...
The desire to treat all those in poverty via one policy stems from the same impulses that led to reform of poor laws in the 19th century.
People queuing at S. Marylebone workhouse circa 1900. In England, Wales and Ireland (but not in Scotland), [1] "workhouse" has been the more common term.Before the introduction of the Poor Laws, each parish would maintain its own workhouse; often these would be simple farms with the occupants dividing their time between working the farm and being employed on maintaining local roads and other ...
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 ...
Atherton's workhouse was in Hag Fold and lasted until the Leigh Union was created. [2] Tyldesley had a workhouse after 1798 when the town started to grow rapidly. The governor's salary was £1 per month in 1798 and rose to £1 18s (£1.90) in 1808, the matron's wage was 8s (40p) a month in 1800.