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Chichester
Poor Law Union and Workhouse
The Union workhouse has 128 inmates. Edward Gilbert,
master.
Source:
Post Office Directory 1846 p.650
Submitted by Betty Longbottom
Inmates
| Workhouses, List of those visited in 1867 With Name of the
Workhouse and numbers of insane, idiotic, and imbecile inmates. |
| WORKHOUSE |
MALE |
FEMALE |
TOTAL |
| Chichester |
1 |
1 |
2 |
| Source: 22nd Report of the Commissioners in
Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor. Submitted by Alan Longbottom. |
Records
West Sussex Record Office
County Hall
Chichester
West Sussex PO19 1RN
Tel: 01243 753600
http://www.westsussex.gov.uk/cs/ro/home.htm
Chichester
Library Information
The archivist at Chichester
Library, Tower Street,
Chichester, stated that the WH is now Cawley Almshouses. Built in 1625 and
converted to a Parish Workhouse in 1681. Became a Poorhouse for 8 parishes in
1753 (presumably under Gilbert's Act) and in 1851 had 124 inmates.
The building is located in Broyle Road, Chichester, and has a clock and a plaque
on the front, and a small bell tower.
Record
Office Information
Information
from West Sussex Record Office
Seventeenth century almshouses erected by
William Cawley were used as the Chichester Workhouse with additions being added
at the back. The Workhouse is located on the Broyle Road, to the north of
the city centre (near the Festival
Theatre). The buildings were used for a time by the Health Service as
headquarters of Chichester Hospital Group Management Committee and as a hospital
laundry. The Cawley Almshouses are still standing and are a Grade II
listed building. The Health Service is no longer using the buildings and a
planning application has recently been made for them to be converted into
residential accommodation.
Richard Childs
County Archivist
West Sussex Record Office
County Hall
Chichester
West Sussex PO19 1RN.
Page updated August 06, 2007
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