Gloucester County Lunatic Asylum (Architectural Competition)

GLOUCESTER LUNATIC ASYLUM - In January and March last the Committee of the Gloucester County Lunatic Asylum offered premiums of £150 and £75 for the best and second-best designs for their intended new asylum. Twenty-eight sets of designs were sent in, and the award has been made this week. The first premium has been awarded to "Experience," a design which we had occasion to notice very favourably in our renew last week. The authors are Messrs. Giles and Gough, 28, Craven-street, W.C. The second premium is given to " By Sunshine all Day," sent in by Mr. J. P. Pritchett, of Darlington; and "Utilitas " (Messrs. Bromilow and Cheers, of Liverpool), and "Glory of Glevum" are awarded honourable mention. The estimate of Messrs. Giles and Gough is 4.5d. per foot cube all over; total, £94,000; including £13,000 for chapel, superintendent's house, drains, gas, water mains, tanks, and all engineers' work, roads, etc. Provision is to be made for 714 patients, with an administrative department large enough for 1,000. With the two additional blocks for 186 patients —total 900—the cost would be £122 per bed. [Building News 15 August 1879 page 197]

Reference           Building News 15 August 1879 page 197