A description of the Royal Hospital for Seamen, at Greenwich : with a short account of the establishment of the Royal Naval Asylum.
- John Cooke
- Date:
- 1820
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A description of the Royal Hospital for Seamen, at Greenwich : with a short account of the establishment of the Royal Naval Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![SCHOOL. THIS building, designed by Mr. Stuart, a former Surveyor, was erected near the Hospital, under the superintendence of Mr. Newton, Clerk of the Works, and is 146 feet in length, and 42 in breadth, exclusive of its Tuscan colonnade, intended for a play-place and shelter for the boys in bad weather, which is 180 feet long, and 20 feet broad. Here is a school-room, ]00 feet long and 25 broad, containing 200 boys; in the two stories above are dormitories of the same size, fitted up with hammocks for the boys to sleep in. Adjoining are rooms for the guardian, nurses, and other necessary attendants, and, at a small distance, a house for the schoolmaster. CIVIL OFFICES. THE offices appropriated to the several departments havino-been found very inadequate, in the year 1813 this building was begun: it contains all the offices for conducting the civil concerns of the institution, viz.— That for the Treasurer, the Secretary, the Steward, with store-rooms, &c., attached, the Clerk of the Check and Prize department, the Paymaster of the Out-pensi(?ns, and Oflice of Works,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21451916_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
