Imposing Front of Madron Workhouse, amost derelict

BUILD 7HF 224.tif

Title

Imposing Front of Madron Workhouse, amost derelict

Subject

Public Building

Description

The Workhouse, officially known as the Penzance Union Workhouse, was designed by the prominent Victorian architectural partnership of George Gilbert Scott (later Sir George Gilbert Scott) and William Bonython Moffatt.
Artist, Alfred Wallis (1855-1942), spent his final days and died here.

Date

1965

Rights

Morrab Library

Format

Print

Identifier

BUILD 7HF 224

Coverage

Madron

Period Costume

N

Geolocation