The Southwell Workhouse
The southwell workhouse was built in 1834, introducing a harsh and
revolutionary system that was designed to cut the cost of caring for
the poor. This system was later adopted adopted across a national
network of over 600 workhouses. In this essay I will explain how life
was in the southwell workhouse and how paupers were treated there back
in the 19th century.
The workhouse was built in southwell after the poorlaw amendment act
was passed in 1834. The building housed 158 inmates and was designed
specifically segregate the different classes. This gave the effect of
a prison building.
When you come up to the workhouse you are left with a path down the
left hand side of the building which was known as paupers lane. Here
the paupers would walk until they were faced with the massive building
where they would be working.
Before entering they would have to go through an interview and a short
medical. After this they were issued with a workhouse uniform and then
put into there category.Segregation was a harsh reality of workhouse
life especially if families and small children were seperated.
The workhouse was bought for £250,000 in the summer of 1997.The
national trust purchased the building in order to restore it as a
museum. After its restoration of around 12 million pounds the museum
is now open to the public. The building was restored to its original
layout, however there is no furniture or fitted rooms, so
unfortunately you only see how the plan was inside the workhouse.
The building was designed by william nicholson at a cost of £6.596. It
was designed with wings like a prison. This was designed in order to
segregate inmates into there classes.
The building is symmetrical, in the middle of the building is the room
for the governer, and either side of that are the various rooms where
the inmates worked, slept, and ate. From the outside it looks like a
prison with a wall surrounding the workhouse.
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