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Giltspur Street Compter (Debtors' Prison), City of London, 1787
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Reference number
SM D4/3/35
Purpose
Giltspur Street Compter (Debtors' Prison), City of London, 1787
Aspect
[2] Ground plan
Scale
1/8 in to 1 ft
Inscribed
Plan of the Ground Floor, This Building will contain / Men Felons in seperate Cells 12 / Women Do --- in Do --- 8 / 20 / Night Charges men --- 20 / Do --- Women ---20 / 40 / Common side Debtors men --- 48 / Do --- Women 12 / 60 / Masterside Debtors --- 16 / 16 / Total 136, labelled including Kitchen, Office, Lodge, Turnkey, Sheriffs / Office, dimensions given (some by Dance) and (verso) [Gro]und Plan, approved of (cut) Day by Committee for / [bui]lding a new Compter / (cut) Giltspur Street
Signed: Geo: Dance / Tho' Poynder (bricklayer) / Wm Hughes (carpenter) / Wm Hopcraft (mason) / John Poynder (plumber) / Ths Downes (blacksmith) / Thomas Silk (plasterer) / John Judgson / Wm Bates / Tho Wheeler
Dated: (Dance) This Plan was agreed upon / March 27th 1787 and (contract signatures) 16th of June 1787
Signed and dated
- 1787
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia washes, pencil within double ruled border, pricked for transfer on coarse laid paper, with seven old patches (705 x 890)
Hand
Dance
Notes
The plan shows accommodation for 136 prisoners. There are now nine lots for shops and houses on Newgate Street to be let on building Leases; each has a 17 foot frontage and is between 39 and 54 feet deep. These shops and house were intended to raise revenue for the Corporation of London.
REPRODUCED. D. Stroud, ' The Giltspur Street Compter', Architectural History, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, XXVII, 1984, fig.2b.
REPRODUCED. D. Stroud, ' The Giltspur Street Compter', Architectural History, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, XXVII, 1984, fig.2b.
Level
Drawing
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