Giltspur Street Compter (Debtor's Prison), City of London, 1787

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George Dance office drawings: the drawings of George Dance the Elder and George Dance the Younger
- Prison, courts and a lunatic hospital (5)
  - Giltspur Street Compter (Debtors' Prison), City of London, 1787 Design not as executed, contract drawings for crenellated design, revised designs and working drawings (37)

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Reference number

SM D4/3/37

Purpose

Giltspur Street Compter (Debtor's Prison), City of London, 1787

Aspect

[11] Ground plan with flier showing modification to the chapel

Scale

1/5 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

labelled including The Way to M^rAld^m Newman's Premises, Ware^se belong[ing] to M^r Hollier Glazier / in the Occupⁿ of M^r White Newman Oilman Newg^te St, Deliver'd at Mess^s Wix (cut) / to M^r Churchill a co[py], dimensions given ( a few by Dance), marked I and II (in red pen, see [D4/3/9]) and (verso, Dance) Giltspur Compter Dated: - Sep^r [1787?, missing]

Signed and dated

1787

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, raw umber and light red washes, pencil, pricked for transfer on laid paper, two sheets joined, with eight old patches; flier on thin laid paper (870 x 1030, flier 250 x 235)

Hand

curly office hand, Dance

Watermark

J Whatman (twice); flier, Britannia in crowned roundel

Notes

The date of this drawing is uncertain since the sheet is damaged: however, B. Watson ('The Compter prisons of London' London Archaeologist, VII, 1993, No.5, p.119) give 1787 as the year. The site, enclosed by a perimeter wall, is larger at the southeast corner (Mr Hollier's premises) than shown on the contract plan of March and June 1787 ([SM D4/3/35]). The planning of each of the buildings has been modified to a greater or lesser extent. The arrangement of some of the buildings against the perimeter and dividing walls was revised in the executed design so that for better security and ventilation they were made free-standing within their courts.

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