Rotherhithe

Rotherhithe

Rotherhithe Workhouse - Sick Asylum - competition

The Board of Managers invited 8 architects to furnish plans for the Pauper Hospital for the parishes of Bermondsey, Rotherhite and St. Olave, to be erected on a limited site adjoining the Rotherhithe Workhouse and the new Southwark Park.

The principal conditions were :-

Each architect to receive £40, except the successful competitor. He if required is to carry out the works for a payment of £900; but he will not be entitled to any payment unless a substantial contractor will undertake the work at a price not being more than 10% above the estimate. The payment of the sum of £900 is to include all travelling expenses, and attendances, and the supply of all plans, working drawings etc. All drawings are to be to a scale of one-twentieth of an inch to the foot. Accommodation is to be provided for 500 patients, about 200 males and 300 females; and the buildings are to be so arranged as to be easily capable of extension if required, so that easy access may be had to all parts. Buildings to be constructed on the pavilion principle.

The competitors were :-

Mr George Legge £35,000
Mr Elkington £32,000
Mr Ernest Turner £29,000
Mr C.H.Cooke £28,000
Messrs Giles & Biven £27,500

Dr. Markham and Mr. Corbett inspectors of the Poor-law Board attended the meeting of the managers, to give their opinions on the designs; and recommended those by Giles & Biven, and Mr Ernest Turner. Ultimately that by Mr. Turner was selected.
Source: The Builder 1868 Vol XXVI 31st October 1868 p.805
Submitted by Alan Longbottom

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