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Inveraray, The New Jail
Court House (19th Century), Jail (19th Century)
Site Name Inveraray, The New Jail
Classification Court House (19th Century), Jail (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Court House And Jails; Crown Point
Canmore ID 151598
Site Number NN00NE 33.02
NGR NN 09657 08374
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/151598
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Inveraray
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
Criminal Jail.
Architect: Thomas Brown, 1844.
EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
National Library, 5th Report of the General Board of Directors of the Prisons in Scotland - text.
(Undated) note in NMRS.
Field Visit (September 1984)
The walled precincts of the former court-house and County jails occupy an area measuring about 45m by 24m on Crown Point. On the SE a substantial enclosure-wall incorporates two circular angle-turrets and a central rounded bulwark, on a massive battered plinth which rises from the shore of Loch Fyne (en.l*), while the main NW front of the court-house projects 10.5m into Church Square.
The court-house was erected between 1816 and 1820 to plans adapted by James Gillespie Graham from an 1807 design for the same site by Robert Reid. The contractors, William Lumsden and James Peddie, were both from Edinburgh, and the contract price was £5,858. The old jail, a detached two-storeyed block which stands immediately NE of the court-house, was also completed about 1820 as a debtors' prison and was used latterly as a female prison. A three-storeyed 'new' jail was built as a felons' prison by Thomas Brown in the SW half of the enclosure in 1843-5. In 1869 a two-storeyed police block containing domestic and office accommodation with overnight cells was attached to the SW side of the court-house, and in 1931-2 a further block was added between the NE wall of the court-house and the1820 jail (en.2*).
RCAHMS 1992, visited September 1984
[see RCAHMS 1992, No. 205, for a full architectural description]
