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Survey of London
Stockwell: Brixton Hill area
Survey of London: Volume 26, Lambeth: Southern Area.
Originally published by London County Council, London, 1956.
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'Stockwell: Brixton Hill area', Survey of London: Volume 26, Lambeth: Southern Area, (London, 1956), pp. 100-105. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol26/pp100-105 [accessed 12 June 2024].
. "Stockwell: Brixton Hill area",
in Survey of London: Volume 26, Lambeth: Southern Area,
(London, 1956)
100-105.
British History Online, accessed June 12, 2024, https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol26/pp100-105.
. "Stockwell: Brixton Hill area",
Survey of London: Volume 26, Lambeth: Southern Area,
(London, 1956).
100-105.
British History Online. Web. 12 June 2024, https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol26/pp100-105.
In this section
●BRIXTON HILL AREA
●Lambeth Town Hall
●Corpus Christi Roman Catholic
Church, Trent Road
●Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Primary School, Trent Road
●St. Saviour's Church, Lambert Road
●Parkside Primary and Secondary
School, Bartley Road
●The Windmill, Blenheim Gardens
●No. 47 Blenheim Gardens
●Nos. 49 and 51 Blenheim Gardens
●Lambeth Waterworks, Jebb Avenue
●Brixton Prison
●Nos. 176–182 (even) Brixton Hill
Footnotes
BRIXTON HILL AREA
Lambeth Town Hall
In 1904, shortly after the constitution of
Lameth Borough Council, a site for a Town
Hall on the corner of Acre Lane and Brixton
Hill was purchased for £25,000. (fn. 140) A competition
was held for a design for the new building
and there were 143 entries, (fn. 141) that of Septimus
Warwick and Herbert Austen Hall being chosen
(Plate 36b). The builders, whose tender was for
£38,274, were Messrs. John Greenwood, Ltd. (fn. 142)
The foundation stone was laid on July 21, 1906,
by the Mayor, Alderman F. A. Powell. In a
cavity under the stone the Mayor placed a sealed
bottle containing a copy of The Times, a map of
the borough, a list of the members of the Council
and its committees, and some coins. (fn. 143) The hall
was opened by the Prince of Wales on April 29,
1908. (fn. 144) The clock in the tower was the gift of
Edwin Jones, J.P. (fn. 145) In 1937–8 the original
architects were employed to build an assembly
hall fronting Acre Lane and make other extensions
including an additional storey to the existing
building. (fn. 146)
The Town Hall occupies a large site at the
acute-angled junction of Brixton Hill and Acre
Lane. The building is well planned with its
main entrance at the corner of the site, where a
vestibule leads past the staircase at the base of the
tower, to a rotunda from whence the corridors
branch left and right, opening to offices ranged
along the two frontages. These ranges are linked
by a transverse wing that contains the rates office
with the council chamber above. There are two
principal storeys, to which an attic has been
added.
The building is a good example of the Edwardian
Baroque manner, fairly restrained in the
main but with occasional flourishes of opulent
vulgarity. The exterior is faced with narrow red
bricks of a fine quality, in conjunction with an
extensive use of Portland stone, based on a grey
granite plinth. The tall tower dominates the
composition, its simple shaft of brick bounded by
straight quoins supporting an octangular stage of
stone. In each cardinal face is a louvred arch,
containing a clock dial and surmounted by a
pediment. Symbolic figures posture against the
four angle faces and there is an extravagant
terminal feature of inverted consoles supporting a
pedestal with a crown-like finial. The main
entrance is emphasized by its setting in a semicircular
feature that projects in front of the tower-base. This is entirely faced with stone and elaborately
dressed with a giant order of plain-shafted
Ionic columns, forming bays each containing a
tall window below a circular one. The Brixton
Hill front is a balanced composition with a central
feature of three bays, and end pavilions each of
one bay, also dressed with engaged Ionic columns
and pilasters. Recessed within the middle bay of
the central feature is an elaborate window with a
swan-necked pediment, opening to a balcony beneath
which is the secondary entrance to the
building. The wall faces between the centre and
end pavilions each have two tiers of seven windows,
those to the first storey having arched heads. The
windows in both tiers are linked by their stone
setting, thus forming a series of vertical panels
in the brick face. The crowning entablature is
surmounted by a balustrade, broken by attic
features over the centre and end pavilions. The
Acre Lane front begins with a pavilion responding
to that on the Brixton Hill front, but otherwise
the monumental treatment is not repeated.
Corpus Christi Roman Catholic
Church, Trent Road
In 1880 a mission was established in Brixton
under the care of the Rev. Hendrik van Doorne,
a Flemish priest who had lived in England for a
long time. There was then no Roman Catholic
church in the district, so in the following year a
large house on the west side of Brixton Hill,
known as No. 4 Gwydyr Houses, was purchased
for £2,610. The house was Re-named Corpus
Christi House and one of the rooms was adapted
as a small temporary chapel. A church building
fund was opened, and in 1885 John Francis
Bentley, the future architect of Westminster
Cathedral, who had been associated with the
scheme from its inception, suggested the purchase
of Bethel House, with its large gardens, as a
suitable site for a permanent church. (fn. 147) Bethel
House is a large double-fronted house built in
1768 and formerly occupied by Thomas Bailey, (fn. 148)
the founder of Trinity Homes, Acre Lane (page
98). (fn. c1) The house was purchased for £3,550 and the
foundation stone of the new church, which stands
in the front garden of the house, was laid by
Bishop Butt on July 14, 1886. (fn. 149)
Corpus Christi was Bentley's first important
church-building commission. His plan (fig. 33)
provided for a large church in the Early Decorated
style, consisting of nave, chancel, ambulatory,
north and south aisles, transepts, three side chapels
and a tower. At the south-east corner there were
to be two sacristies with an organ loft above, and
at the south-west corner there was to be a presbytery. Owing to lack of funds only the chancel,
the two eastern chapels and the sacristies were
built in 1886–7, the contractors being Laurenson
and Sons. This first part of the church was
opened by Bishop Butt on June 12, 1887. (fn. 147)
The transepts were added in 1904, after Bentley's
death. (fn. 150) His designs were modified, the rose
windows being reduced in size. (fn. 147) Any further
additions to the church will involve the demolition
of Bethel House, most of which is now used as
a school.
Figure 33:
Corpus Christi, Trent Road, Plan Hatched part not built
The Church of Corpus Christi (Plates 22, 23),
in common with most buildings of Bentley's
designing, has the character of an organic growth,
the interior arising naturally from the plan and
finding logical expression in the exterior. The
building is well sited to take the fullest advantage
of the site width between Trent Road and Horsford Road, with the east end set some distance
back from Brixton Hill. The plan is asymmetrical,
but balances on an east-west axis.
In its completed form the nave would have
four arcaded bays and an aisleless extension towards
the west, flanked on the north side by the
porch below the steeple, and on the south side
by the presbytery. the first three bays of the
nave arcades open to aisles, that on the north side
being flanked by a range of confessionals, while
that on the south opens through another arcade
to the Chapel of the Holy Ghost. The easternmost
bay of the nave opens to the transepts, the
northern having one bay and the southern two.
The square-ended chancel has two arcaded bays,
opening on the north to the Lady Chapel and on
the south to St. John's Chapel, the last being
flanked by two sacristies with the organ loft over.
A narrow ambulatory provides circulation space
behind the reredos.
It will be seen that although the plan has
transepts, there is no pronounced crossing, the
nave and chancel being unified by the clerestory
arcade, with two blind bays over each transept
arch, and the pointed vault continuing unbroken
arch, and the pointed vault consinuing unbroken
from east to west. One very unusual feature of
the design is the use made of different systems of
bay spacing for the nave and aisle arcades, the
latter having four arches to balance the three of
the nave. In a similar way the outer walls of the
chapels have three arches to balance the two of the
chancel arcades. The resulting interplay of
arcaded forms is most effective.
Bentley's design is a free interpretation of Early Decorated Gothic, realized in brick with a
generous use of Bath stone, the internal brickwork
being plastered while fine red bricks are used for
the exterior facings. Internally, an apparent
over-elaboration of form arising from the conjunction
of the differently-scaled arcades, and the
effect of exaggerated height, are undoubtedly
accentuated by the present incomplete state of the
building and the absence of the rood-loft intended
to enclose the chancel. The single completed
bay of the nave arcade gives only a foretaste of
the whole design. Faceted piers with engaged
shafts on their lateral faces provide the springing
for a two-centred arch with moulded and faceted
reveals, having at its apex a carved corbel-head
from which rises the shafted intermediate pier of
the clerestory arcade, here bisecting the arch that
terminates the pointed barrel roof of the transept.
Against the main face of each pier, below the
springing of the nave arches but level with that of
the smaller-scale chancel arcade, is a similar
corbel-head supporting a shaft which rises to the
vault springing. Corbels and shaft-capitals are
finely carved, the former with idealized heads and
the latter with naturalistic foliage.
The chancel floor is raised by three steps above
the nave level. The two-bay arcade is considerably
smaller in scale than that of the nave, while
the pier and arch profiles are more elaborate. The
difference in height between the two arcades is 'taken up in the clerestory of tall two-light
three in number, set in deep splayed reveals
with single shafts on the front faces, rising from
corbel-heads to carry the vaulted roof. The east
wall is a composition of three stages, the lowest
containing the fine winged reredos setting (which
was also designed by Bentley) for the high altar.
Above is the triforium arcade of seven cusp-headed arches, arranged in groups of two-three-two and standing forward from the respondent
range of seven lancet windows. The same spacing
is adopted for the great east window, its triple
arcade forming a splendid climax to the chancel
clerestory. The body of the church is ceiled by
a pointed barrel roof with groined in tersecting
returns to the clerestory arcade, constructed
of closely-spaced wood ribs framing plaster panels.
By contrast with the well-lit chancel, the
transepts seem shadowy, receiving their light
through two tall single-light windows with trefoil
heads, and the small traceried rose in the lunette
above. The chancel side chapels have lateral
arcades of three bays, the moulded arches rising
from delicate shafted piers of quatrefoil plan. The
north arcade stands free before a corresponding
range of three-light windows. That on the south
side opens to the organ loft. Each chapel has an
east window of five lights. The arched heads of
the windows generally are enriched with cusping
and pointed trefoils are often introduced.
Externally, the quality of Bentley's design is
best observed in the completed east front. The
chancel end, bounded by massive frontal and
lateral buttresses with gabled heads, is a tripartite
composition dominated by the great three-arched
window and crowned by a gable. The lower side
chapels have recessed gables and are flanked by
octagonal turrets with faceted conical roofs. The
pronounced verticality of the design is checked by
the introduction of several horizontal stone bands.
The completed portion of the north elevation
includes the side of the Lady Chapel, with three
triple-light windows between buttresses, and the
north transept with its gable-end rising almost to
the parapet line of the chancel, where the clerestory
windows are linked by canopied panels.
Chapel and chancel walls finish with simple
corbel-tables behind which rise the steeply pitched
roofs of slate. The south elevation is similar
except that the chapel is here replaced by the
twin-gabled wall of the sacristies and organ loft.
Bentley designed and supervised the execution
of some very good stained glass for this church,
some of which was unfortunately destroyed
during the last war. There survive, apart from
some fragments in the east windows of the two
chapels, two complete windows in the Lady
Chapel, and the seven lancets of the triforium of
the east end of the chancel. The transept glass is
by Osmond Bentley. (fn. 151)
Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Primary School, Trent Road
This school was opened in 1902 (fn. 152) in buildings
standing in the back garden of Bethel House.
More buildings have been added subsequently
and the school now occupies a large part of Bethel
House as well.
St. Saviour's Church, Lambert Road
At a meeting held at St. Matthew's vicarage
on March 24, 1873, a Committee was formed to
build a new church. The proposed new district
had a population of nearly 4,000, and a great
deal of building was in progress. “The meadow-lands and brick-fields of a few years ago are now
either covered with long rows of houses, or else
marked out for fresh streets. ” (fn. 153) A site costing
£775 was acquired and was conveyed to the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners. The church (plate 15b)
was built to accommodate 938 people and was
designed by E.C. Robins. (fn. 153) The first stone was
laid on July 15, 1874, by James Watney, M.P., (fn. 33)
and the church was consecrated on September 29
of the following year. A Consolidated Chapelry
was assigned shortly afterwards. (fn. 153)
St. Saviour's is designed in Gothic style and is
faced with Kentish ragstone with Bath stone
dressings. The tower at the north-west corner
has four circular corner pinnacles and an octagonal
louvred lantern, and is a conspicuous landmark
in the neighbourhood. The nave has six
arcaded bays, flanked by low aisles with lean-to
roofs. The arches rest on circular columns with
vigorously carved foliated capitals, and the clerestory
windows contain plate-tracery.
Parkside Primary and Secondary
School, Bartley Road
This school was built for the London School
Board by W. Downs of Walworth, whose tender
for a school for 792 children was for £8,167. (fn. 154)
The architect was E.R. Robson (fn. 31) The school
opening was August 19, 1875. (fn. 32)
was remodelled in 1913; it is a plain three-storey
brick building.
The Windmill, Blenheim Gardens
At the auction of Stockwell Manor in 1802,
Christopher Chryssell Hall of the Borough of
Southwark, merchant, purchased part of the
Manor which was conveyed to him in the following year. (fn. 24)
acres and lay south of the present Blenheim
Gardens; it can be identified with the parcels of
land marked 83–89 (inclusive) on the plan of the
Manor on Plates 74 and 75. Very little development
took place before 1850, most of the fields
being used for diging brick earth until the
1870. (fn. 155)
In 1817 John Ashby of Brixton Hill, miller,
obtained a lease for 99 years from Hall of two
acres of land (plot 84) on the south side of a new
road to be called Cornwall Road (now Blenheim
Gardens), together with a “Brick corn Mill” and
other erections. (fn. 156) The windmill was erected in
1816—17 at the south-west corner of the two
acres (Plate 43). Save for a brief period in
1862—4, when the sails of the mill were removed
and new machinery installed, the windmill was in
continuous use by the firm of Ashby until 1934. (fn. 157)
It has been listed as a building of architectural and
historic interest under the Town and Country
Planning Act, 1947, and the London County
Council is purchasing the site for an open space
(1955). The mill is built of stock brick, painted
over, and is surmounted by a gallery and a wooden
boat-shaped cap; the gallery was added later.
The ancillary buildings are of brick-nogged and
weather boarded construction with pantile roofs.
No. 47 Blenheim Gardens
Formerly No. 23 Cornwall Road
In 1843 John Ashby agreed with John Muggeridge
of Brixton Road, builder, to let the eastern
half of his property for building, and seven houses
fronting Cornwall Road were erected by Muggeridge. (fn. 156) Only one, No. 47, has survivedl; it is
a small single-storey house with a stuccoed front.
Nos. 49 and 51 Blenheim Gardens
Formerly Nos. 25 and 25A Cornwall Road
No. 49, the Mill House, was erected as a
family residence for the Ashbys; (fn. 156) it is a plain
two-storey stock brick villa with a central entrance.
No. 51, which stands in the yard approaching the mill, is a small two-storeyed villa,
faced with stucco and of rustic appearance.
Lambeth Waterworks, Jebb Avenue
The Company of Proprietors of Lambeth
Waterworks was established in 1785 with works
in north Lambeth. (fn. 159) In 1834 the Company
obtained an Act of Parliament (fn. 159) in order to
extend the area to which it might supply water.
In the same year some 16 acres of land in Brixton
were purchased from Christopher Chryssell Hall, (fn. 24)
and a reservoir and works were built.
Brixton Prison
In 1818 the Justices of the Peace for Surrey
decided to enlarge the prison at Kingston and to
build two new Houses of Correction, one at
Guildford and the other at Brixton. (fn. 160) About
five acres of land forming parcel of the part of
Stockwell Manor which had been acquired by
Christopher Chryssell Hall in 1802 were bought
for £400 per arce (fn. 161)
from Florance Young. (fn. 24)
A further strip of land on the west side of the
prison was bought in 1836 from the Lambeth
Waterworks Company. (fn. 24) Designs for the prison
were drawn up by Mr. Chawner, the County
Surveyor. (fn. 162) His plan (fig. 34) bore some
resemblance to the recently erected model prison
at Millbank, for the central feature was a polygonal building from which the governor could
watch the prisoners at work. But whereas the six
main blocks of cells at Millbank were arranged
like the petals of a flower round the governor's
office, those at Brixton were arranged in the form
of a crescent, and so provided for expansion at a
later date, “should the encreasing Depravity of
the lower Orders subject the County to that
burthensome Obligation”. (fn. 163) The whole prison
was surrounded by a high wall with a large gatehouse on the north side.
Figure 34:
Brixton Prison, lay-out plan based on the
Ordnance Survey map of 1870. The shaded portions
were built before 1853
The wall and the gatehouse were built in
1819, (fn. 164) and when they were finished 25 prisoners were sent to help in the construction of the
main blocks. (fn. 165) The experiment was not altogether successful, for three prisoners escaped in
1820 and the governor was dismissed. (fn. 166) When
completed the prison contained 149 single cells
and 12 double ones, the capacity of the single
ones being 360 cubicfeet, which compared very
unfavourably with the 911 cubic feet of the cells
at Pentonville Prison, erected in 1840–2. (fn. 167)
Estimates of the cost of the building vary considerably; Mayhew, quoting figures supplied by
the Clerk of the Peace for Surrey, says that the
cost of the land, the building and the erection of
the treadmill was £51,780; (fn. 168) but a report presented to Quarter Sessions in 1852 says that the
original cost of the building and fittings was
£32,000 exclusive of the cost of the land and
treadmill. (fn. 169) The first figure probably includes
the cost of later works.
During discussion of the plans of the prison the
Surrey Justices asked for the advice of Mr.
Orridge, governor of the new House of Correction
at Bury St. Edmunds. (fn. 163) A treadmill had been
installed there in about 1818 by (Sir) William
Cubitt (fn. 170) and in 1820 he was asked to prepare
plans for a similar machine for Brixton House of
Correction. (fn. 171) His plans were approved by the
Justices, and in 1821 a tender from John Penn to
erect a treadmill and keep it in repair for five
years for £2,910 was accepted; Cubitt was
offered £400 for his services. (fn. 172) Radiating out
from the governor's office in the centre of the
prison were the airing yards in which the tread-wheels worked by the prisoners were established (fn. 173)
(Plate 37a). These tread-wheels were connected
to the mill-house which contained the machinery
for grinding corn. Each wheel could be adjusted
to the strength of the class of prisoner in the yard.
At Brixton the space stepped over by each man in
one hour was 731 yards. The advantages of the
wheel as a method of employment were considerable; the prisoners required no instruction, they
could not shirk their share of the labour nor waste
or misapply materials, and there was endless work
which could be started or stopped at a moment's
notice. (fn. 173) Nevertheless the tread-wheel was immediately denounced by some writers as inhumane; Thomas Allen, the historian of Lambeth,
for instance, wrote that for women it was ‘only
fit to be used in the dungeons of the Spanish
Inquisition”. (fn. 174)
The House of Correction was frequently very
overcrowded. By 1846 as many as four prisoners
sometimes slept together in a single cell. In the
following year the Justices resolved to build a
large new House of Correction at Wandsworth. (fn. 175)
After this prison had been completed the Justices
decided to sell the Brixton House of Correction,
and in 1852 they offered it to the Government. (fn. 169)
An Inspector of Prisons reported very favourably
on the possibility of using it as a criminal lunatic
asylum, (fn. 169) but no action was taken, and on
September 8,1852, the prison was sold by auction
to (Sir) William Tite, the architect of the
South Metropolitan Cemetery at Norwood, for
£8,450. (fn. 176)
Tite bought the prison as an investment, and
intended to demolish it and sell the materials.
He was therefore quite prepared to sell the prison
as it stood to the Government, provided that he
made a reasonable profit. Discussions for the
purchase of the prison began immediately after
September 8,1852, and in November Tite gave
the Government one month's option to buy it for
£12,930. (fn. 169) But in December Lord Derby's
ministry resigned, Lord Palmerston succeeding
Spencer Walpole as Home Secretary. (fn. 177) Owing
to the change of government nothing was done
about Tite's offer, and in January 1853 Colonel
Jebb, Surveyor General of Prisons, reported
against the purchase of the prison. Meanwhile
Tite was becoming justifiably impatient and
arranged for an auction of the fabric to take place
on February 28,1853. (fn. 169) Lord Palmerston was,
however, intending to introduce a Bill for the
partial abolition of transportation, which would
require a considerable expansion of prison accommodation at home. (fn. 178) On February 16 Colonel
Jebb suggested that Brixton prison might be very
useful for this purpose, and nine days later a provisional agreement for the purchase of the gaol
for £13,000 was signed. (fn. 169) The formal conveyance was dated May 14,1853, and left Mr. Tite
with a profit of £4,550.
The prison was intended for use as a convict
prison for women. A new block of cells was built
at each end of the crescent, and other additions
made in 1853 included a chapel, wash-house,
baths, infirmary, kitchens and houses for the
officers; these alterations provided accommodation for 700 women. The first prisoners entered
on November 24,1853. New prisoners were
confined to the old part of the prison for probationary discipline. (fn. 179)
The prison has been considerably altered and
enlarged since 1853. It is now largely used for
the confinement of unconvicted prisoners and
debtors.
Nos. 176–182 (even) Brixton Hill
Formerly Nos. 9–12 (consec.) Upper Brixton Rise
These houses stand on part of the Nine Acres
Field purchased by Florance Young of Southwark
from Christopher Chryssell Hall in 1818. (fn. 180)
They were erected between 1824 and 1830 (fn. 38)
and were left by Young on his death in 1835 to
his four sons. (fn. 180) There were originally twelve
houses but only Nos. 176–182 survive. They are
two pairs of stock brick houses of three storeys
and semi-basements, with wings of the same height
which contain the entrances. Each pair shares
a poorly detailed pediment, and the houses are
devoid of ornament except for the Victorian
gabled porches added to the entrances of Nos.
176 and 178.
Footnotes
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24. Newington Sessions House, title deeds of House
of Correction, Brixton.
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31. L.C.C. Architect's plans.
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32.
L.C.C. Elementary Day Schools. Report of the
Education Committee, 1905.
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33. Foundation stone.
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38. R.B.
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140. L.B.C. Minutes, June 16, 1904.
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141.
The Builder, May 6, 1905, p. 487.
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142. L.B.C. Minutes, Jan. 18, 1906.
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143.
Ibid., Sept. 13, 1906.
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144.
Ibid., April 29, 1908.
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145.
Ibid., Dec. 10, 1908.
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146. T.P. Case 8561.
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147.
Westminster Cathedral and its Architect, by
Winefride de L'Hôpital, N.D., vol. 2, pp.
407–419.
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148. Information supplied by the Rev. Bernard Kelly,
F.R.Hist.S.
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149.
The Universe, July 17, 1886.
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150. B.A. Case 23277.
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151. de L'Hôpital, op. cit., vol. 2, p. 541.
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152. de L'Hôpital, op. cit., vol. 2, p. 419.
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153. C.C., File 48729, printed prospectus.
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154. L.S.B. Minutes, July 11, 1877.
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155. O.S. 1870.
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156. Deeds in the custody of Messrs. Scott and Son.
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157. Information supplied by the Trustees of the
property.
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158.
Survey of London, vol. XXIII, p. 51.
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159. 4 & 5 Will. IV c. 7, local and personal.
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160. S.C.C.R.O., Q.S. Order Books, April 7, 1818.
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161.
Ibid., July 14, 1818.
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162.
Ibid., April 11, 1820.
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163.
Ibid., Jan. 12, 1819.
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164.
Ibid., Dec. 6, 1819.
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165.
Ibid., July 11, 1820.
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166.
Ibid., Oct. 17, 1820.
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167.
The Criminal Prisons of London …, by Henry
Mayhew and John Binny, 1862, pp. 174,
113.
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168.
Ibid., p. 183, footnote.
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169. P.R.O., HO12/5054.
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170.
English Prisons Under Local Government, by
Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1922, p. 97.
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171. S.C.C.R.O., Q.S. Order Books, Sept. 22, 1820.
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172.
Ibid., Mar. 29, 1821.
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173.
The Gentleman's Magazine, July, 1822, Plate
and pp. 9–10.
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174. Allen, p. 405.
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175. Mayhew and Binny, op. cit., pp. 493–494.
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176. S.C.C.R.O., Q.S. Order Books, Oct. 19, 1852.
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177.
D.N.B.
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178. 16 and 17 Viet., c. 99, public.
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179. Report of the Surveyor General of Prisons …,
by Lt. Col. Jebb, 1853, XXXIII, p. 61.
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180. Deeds of owners in the custody of Messrs. Lewis
W. Taylor and Co.
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c1. The dating of Bethel House to 1768 now seems uncertain. It is not shown on Thorneycrofts estate map of 1773 (in the Minet Library), or in J. E. Edwards' A Journey From London To Brighthelmstone, of 1801.
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