Sujet

The New Townhall, Blackburn, 1857. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The New Townhall, Blackburn, 1857. Civic building designed by James Patterson. 'The style is Italian...The police office and prison are at the east end of the buildings, the entrance to the prison-yard being under a rusticated gateway...On the right is a news-room; on the left...are the council-room, Town Clerk's office and muniment-room. Behind the vestibule...is the police court, lighted by a glass dome...On one side of this court is the Mayor's parlour, a smaller police court, clerks' office, attorneys', and other rooms; and on the other side is the public entrance to the arge court, and rooms for the clerks connected with the business of the court. On the east side are the police office and the prison, containing eighteen cells. The first floor is reached by two staircases, one from each end of the corridor behind the vestibule'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23A76_395

Model release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

28,0Mo (2,5Mo) / 31,2cm x 22,5cm / 3682 x 2660 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors building England architecture arts law art crime British color Town Hall Neo-classical civic police prison century municipal Britain newspapers press B&W office building engraved engraving penitentiary Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W Italianate Neoclassical Neoclassicism white and black nineteenth century police station Neo-Classicism The Print Collector Blackburn Blackburn with Darwen Illustrated London News TGN wood engraving ILN outside newspaper Unknown 19th-century