[13] Finished drawing for the ground floor of a group of prison buildings for Edinburgh Bridewell, 1791, unexecuted

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  - Bridewell, Edinburgh: designs for a group of prison buildings, 1790-91, executed in part (33)
    - Design for a castle-style bridewell scheme, 1791, unexecuted (11)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 33/19

Purpose

[13] Finished drawing for the ground floor of a group of prison buildings for Edinburgh Bridewell, 1791, unexecuted

Aspect

Ground plan for a group of prison buildings with surrounding yards enclosed by a continuous retaining wall, similar to SM Adam volume 1/271 with some minor omissions and additions, including a D-shaped inspection lodge and the omission of the portico and bow in the entrance lodge. The entrance lodge has a large wash house, fumigating room and porter’s room. The space between the cells and inspector’s lodge of the central building forms a chapel with a pulpit and seating for ‘strangers’. The flanking blocks have outer bowed ends with apertures to look over their respective yards. To the rear of the main building is a small circular Inspector’s lodge with apertures to survey each yard

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Yard for Bedlamites / Yard for Women / Yard for Debters / Yard for Felons / Yard for Convicts / Bridewell yard for Idle Men and Youth / Yard for Infirmary / Cell / Cell / Cell / Cell / Cell / Cell / Staircase / Bedlem[sic] / Inspectors / Lodges / Laboratory / Passage leading to the Bedlam / Passage / Refractory / Cell / Refractory / Cell / Closet / Stairs to the Cells / Cell / Cell / Cell / Cell / Cell / Cell / Cell / Cell / Cell / Cell / Cell / Cell / Cell / Cell / Cell / Cell / Cell / The Chapel Seats for Strangers / Pulpit / Inspectors Lodge / Inner Lobby / Stairs to the Cells / Closet / Refractory / Cell / Refractory / Cell / Passage to the Infirmary / Inspectors Lodge / Staircase / Cell / Cell / Cell / Cell / Cell / Cell / Cell / Cell / Laboratory / Infirmary / Staircase / and / Lobby / Bed Chamb^r / Kitchen / Closet / Passage / Govornors[sic] / Parlor / Hall / Kitchen / Bedroom / Gov^nor / Office / Deputys / Parlor / Fumigating / room / Porters room / Hall / Wash house / Entrance / (verso) No 4 this Plan go 5^th in the Book

Signed and dated

1790-91
datable to 1790-91

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured wash including pink and cerulean blue on laid paper (744x562)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison, John Robertson, or John Paterson

Watermark

Portal & Bridges

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 11
King, Vol. 2, 2001, p. 54
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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