Drawings of the Penzance Union Workhouse

Item author: George Gilbert Scott
Item date: 1839
Grant Value: £863
Item cost: £1,725
Item cost pre-decimal: NULL
Item date acquired: 2007
Item institution: Cornwall Record Office - Kresen Kernow
Town/City: Redruth
County: Cornwall

Seven pen and ink architectural drawings for the new Penzance Union Workhouse in Madron, 1839, with detailed notes on dimensions, fittings and furniture. Signed by G. G. Scott and W(illiam) B(onython) Moffatt , with whom Scott was in partnership, 1838-45, at 20 Spring Gardens, London.

Item Provenance
Penzance Auction House, 11 September 2007, lot 1394