Explore Collections
You are here:
CollectionsOnline
/
Prison, St James's Street, St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands, 1807
Browse
Reference number
SM D3/7/8
Purpose
Prison, St James's Street, St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands, 1807
Aspect
[1] Plan and elevation of front
Sketch of a Prison / for the island of Guernsey
Scale
1/8 Inch to the Foot
Inscribed
as above, labelled, accommodation listed: Separate Cells / for Felons / No 12. Debtors to be / provided for / two or three in / a room / No 20 including male / & female, for persons confin'd / before Commital / One strong room, Kitchen, Wash house, Decent lodgings for the keeper & family, Airing places No 4 viz / One for Male Felons / Do female Do / Do Male Debtors / Do Female Do, rooms labelled Keeper's House, Washouse [sic], Kitchen, Strong room / for persons / confin'd before / commital, Common day room (twice) Cells / for / Felons, Three Stories of Arched Cells, Office, Turnkey, Area for Debtors (twice), Yard (six times), Privy (twice), Bed (three times) and dimensions given
Signed: GD
Dated: Octr 25th 1807
Signed and dated
- 1807
Medium and dimensions
Black and red pen, blue, Indian red, sepia and raw umber washes, pencil on laid paper (455 x 645)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
D&CBxX in cartouche surmounted by fleur-de-lis
Notes
The elevation shows a three-storey, three-bay 'Keeper's House' with segmentally headed windows and entrance, flanked by walls of blank ashlar with horizontal joints, two-storeys high with corner buttresses.
Either side of the Keeper's House are, to the left, a wash-house and kitchen with yard and privy on either side, and to the right the 'strong room' with a yard on three sides; a separate room and yard near the front for uncommitted prisoners was advocated by John Howard, the prison reformer. At the back are the 12 cells for the felons on three floors fronted by arcades with an exercise yard and two privies. On either side of the centre are the male and female debtors' quarters with sleeping rooms, day rooms and large exercise yards with privies. The total enclosure is 141 by 92 feet.
Either side of the Keeper's House are, to the left, a wash-house and kitchen with yard and privy on either side, and to the right the 'strong room' with a yard on three sides; a separate room and yard near the front for uncommitted prisoners was advocated by John Howard, the prison reformer. At the back are the 12 cells for the felons on three floors fronted by arcades with an exercise yard and two privies. On either side of the centre are the male and female debtors' quarters with sleeping rooms, day rooms and large exercise yards with privies. The total enclosure is 141 by 92 feet.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk