Session inactive

Your session will expire soon due to inactivity.

Session expired

Your session has expired, please refresh to sign back in again

Sign in

Skip to menu
Skip to content

	BP100
	Collection
	Original drawings used as illustrations for an article by R. Shoesmith and R. Crosskey entitled “Go to Gaol . . . in Hereford” and published in The Woolhope Transactions Vol. XLVIII, 1994, Part 1. pp 97 – 139. [Some have been mounted onto boards and are stored in the Exhibition Room at 6/18.]

Figure 1: The location of the various gaols in the city. Figure 2: The approximate positions of the City Gaol, the Bye Street Gate and the City Wall and Ditch, superimposed on a modern plan of the area. Figure 3: The suggested location of the Freeman’s prison and its relationship to the Booth Hall and the possible Guild Hall. Figure 4: The City Gaol in Gaol Street taken from the 1858 Curley plan of Hereford. Figure 5: Copy of a plan drawn by Thomas Symonds probably about 1788 for an addition and alteration to the Bridewell. Figure 6: The extent of the St Peter’s Square County Gaol and its ground in 1788 superimposed on a modern plan. Figure 7: The St Peter’s Square County Gaol and the surrounding properties re-drawn from an original plan of 1788. Figure 8: The extent of the County Gaol in Bye Street as designed and built by John Nash in 1797. Figure 9: The extensions and alterations to the County Gaol during the first half of the nineteenth century. Figure 10: The County Gaol in the 1880s showing the extent of the Governor’s House, the Police Station and the rearranged access. Figure 11: The County Gaol at the beginning of the twentieth century. Figure 12: An artist’s impression of the Gaol shortly before its demolition in 1930. Figure 13: A detailed ground-floor plan of the Prison prepared by the County Surveyor’s Department in 1925. Figure 14: The first-floor plan of Prison in 1925. Figure 15: The front and rear elevations of the central range of buildings parallel to Commercial Road in 1925. Figure 16: Elevations of the two ranges of buildings which ran at right angles to Commercial Road in 1925. Figure 17: Cross-sections of various parts of the prison in 1925.