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[116906] Ripon Union Workhouse : Segregation by Design
Ripon Union Workhouse, Allhallow Gate, Ripon, North Yorkshire, 1854.
By Perkin & Backhouse.
Grade ll listed.
Segregation by Design.
This ground floor plan of the main block from 1930 shows how it was designed to keep different groups of inmates apart, despite living in close proximity. The dining hall in the centre of the building can be accessed via the male wing, the female wing and the infirmary, but inmates ate only with their own kind. Even within a wing, inmates were divided by age and there were dual staircases to keep the old and young people separate.
These impressive buildings were home to the poor and destitute of the city and surrounding parishes before the Welfare State. Replacing an earlier poor house, construction began in 1854 to the designs of Perkin and Backhouse of Leeds. Male and female paupers were separately housed within the main block. From the 1870s vagrants were accommodated in the gatehouse wings.
[116906] Ripon Union Workhouse : Segregation by Design
Ripon Union Workhouse, Allhallow Gate, Ripon, North Yorkshire, 1854.
By Perkin & Backhouse.
Grade ll listed.
Segregation by Design.
This ground floor plan of the main block from 1930 shows how it was designed to keep different groups of inmates apart, despite living in close proximity. The dining hall in the centre of the building can be accessed via the male wing, the female wing and the infirmary, but inmates ate only with their own kind. Even within a wing, inmates were divided by age and there were dual staircases to keep the old and young people separate.
These impressive buildings were home to the poor and destitute of the city and surrounding parishes before the Welfare State. Replacing an earlier poor house, construction began in 1854 to the designs of Perkin and Backhouse of Leeds. Male and female paupers were separately housed within the main block. From the 1870s vagrants were accommodated in the gatehouse wings.