A description of the Royal Hospital for Seamen, at Greenwich; With a short account of the Royal Naval Asylum ... / [John Cooke].

  • Cooke, John, 1738-1823.
Date:
1815
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A description of the Royal Hospital for Seamen, at Greenwich; With a short account of the Royal Naval Asylum ... / [John Cooke]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mperintendettce of Mr. Newton, Clerk of the Woi k i, and is 146 feet 'in length, and 42 in breadth, e*©&siv« of its Tuscan colonnade, intended for a pk*y*pla<5t and s&eiter for A* boy* i& had weatne*, fchicfc is t&O feet iong, and £0 feet broad. Here is a sdidoii-rodm, 100 feet long and 35 broad, eot»taB»ing' 200 boys; in th* two stories ab«9^ are dornsitones of theSttne size, fitted Up wfck hsaiimoelvs for the boys to sleep in. Adjoining are rOGifts fcr A« gaapdiao, ww ses, and otber necessary attendants; and, at a swill distanec, a house for the school'- ftiaetqiy-JO^'uq'; bas nosgmE ^rll tol [aahisydq oils zi il9i8 11> \o J' lb :ilt iuru usa&J ei otso uldi&zoq CIVIL OFFICES. . 3as5 iwfJauTBq. i&di oi baJqcbji The offices appropriated to tins' sAvera! departments having been found very inadequate) in ^be year IBIS this building was begunr it) contains all the officer for fcofldiueting. th>e civil csweerns 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 works, and the out-pension departments. ' ]V- The buildingr. is! plain, principally of brick, but b.mig placed at the eod of the great avenue through