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MARSHALSEA PRISON:—DESCRIPTION of the Building.
THE Buildings appropriated for the dwelling of debtors in the aforesaid Prison, occupy
a jpace of ground of one hundred and one feet nine inches in front, and twenty-five feet
rive inches in depth, on which is built eight houses, four in front and four in back, and
which are numbered N" 1 to N°8 inclusivethose N* 2 and N" 7 inclusive, are double houses
containing eight rooms, to wit, two rooms on each floor; those N° 1 and N° 8, are single
houses containing four rooms each, making in the whole, the number of fifty-six rooms;
the dimensions of which rooms being so nearly equal, that it will be sufficient to give the
dimensions of the four rooms in N® 1, as follows, beginning on the ground floor.
N® 1 in N" i.
From window to back wall
- - door to wall -
- floor to ceiling
N°2 in N® i.
- - window to wall
- - door to wall
- - floor to ceiling
N® 3 in N® i.
- - window to back wall
- door to wall -
- floor to ceiling
N° 4 in N® 1.
- - window to back wall
- - door to wall
- floor to ceiling
Ale-room
Length -
Width
Height -
Tap-room
Length -
Width - - - -
Height -
Men's Infirmary:
Windows to wall -
Breadth, exclusive of cupboard
Extreme breadth -
Floor to ceiling -
Female Infirmary:
Window to wall -
Breadth, exclusive of cupboard
Extreme breadth -
Floor to ceiling -
Surgery
i Window to door -
Breadth -----
I oor to ceiling - - - -
Day-room in Admiralty
Prison
Extreme length -
1 D° breadth -
1 Floor to ceiling -
12
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No. 2.
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Admiralty Yard:
From door to back wall - 28
Breadth, from privy to front
of prison - - - - 23
Extreme breadth - - - 29
2
6i
Debtors' Yard:
From the comer of the house, N° 3,
on the front parade to the bound
ary wall - - - - -
From the corner of the house, N® 8,
on the back parade to the bound
ary wall -
Extreme width of yard from bound
ary wall, next the iron-gates
D® ----- - across by the
dust-bin -
Length from the iron rails to the
hatch leading to Admiralty prison
(Back parade) from wall next to
kitchen up to privies -
Wm. Jenkins,
Clerk Papers.
14 ni
14 10
56
48
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