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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]
The 'Red House' at Framlingham Castle in Suffolk was founded as a workhouse in 1664. [6] " The workroom at St James's workhouse", from The Microcosm of London (1808). The workhouse system evolved in the 17th century, allowing parishes to reduce the cost to ratepayers of providing poor relief.
The workhouse also housed one of the largest infirmaries in the country. It catered for 1200 sick paupers. [3] Liverpool philanthropist William Rathbone obtained permission from the Liverpool Vestry to introduce trained nurses (at his own expense for three years) at the workhouse hospital in 1864, and invited Agnes Jones, then at the London Great Northern Hospital, to be the first trained ...
Camberwell workhouse (in Peckham, South London) continued until 1985 as a shelter for more than 1000 homeless men, operated by the Department of Health and Social Security and renamed a resettlement centre. [13] Southwell workhouse, now a museum, was used to provide temporary accommodation for mothers and children until the early 1990s.
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.
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 ...
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.