Reference
QSR1820/332-333
Title
Report by James Elmes, architect, on the progress of work on building the new house of correction.
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1820
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From: 1820 To: 1820
Scope and Content
The works proceed 'with as much celerity as circumstances would admit.' Setting the copings of boundary walls and the coverings of three fourths of the cells has been stopped by 'the present hard frost.' The finishing of the interior has been proceeding satisfactorily. 'Your new keeper I find has been there for some weeks and has forwarded the drying and finishing works by several weeks, through his personal exertions aided by the permission he obtained to procure coals and keep fires.'
One ward will be fit for habitation in a few weeks. To divide into classes in the building and not to classify in the chapel or schoolroom, appears to defeat the laudable end of classification proposed by your Lordships. He asks to divide chapel according to his plan.
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