Monument record SMR 027 - Semer Poor Law Institution; Cosford Union Workhouse

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Summary

Site of Cosford Union (incorporated hundred) Workhouse.

Location

Grid reference Centred TM 008 451 (273m by 235m) Centred on
Map sheet TM04NW
Civil Parish SEMER, BABERGH, SUFFOLK

Map

Type and Period (6)

Full Description

Site of Cosford Union (incorporated hundred) Workhouse. Built 1786 or 1780 (S2), survey and alterations (& enlargement?) 1835/6. Sold in 1923, and workhouse subsequently demolished. Chapel built adjoining NE side of workhouse in 1859. Also demolished.
Engine house adjoined SW side of workhouse. Demolished.
Hospital (built 1869) and other ranges of buildings to NW of former workhouse still shown on 1973 map. School built in 1871. Burial ground SW of workhouse survives (S1).

Sources/Archives (3)

  • <S1> (No record type): Thorogood M, notes and copies of early maps, November 1994.
  • <M1> Unpublished document: Suffolk Archaeological Service. Parish Files. (S1).
  • <S2> (No record type): Dymond D, `Parish & Hundred Workhouses before 1834', An Historical Atlas of Suffolk, 1988.

Finds (0)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Record last edited

Oct 29 1996 12:00AM

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