Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3182SW SANS WALK
635-1/73/752 (North side)
29/12/50 Part of former House of Detention,
below Kingsway College Clerkenwell
Centre
(Formerly Listed as:
SKINNER STREET
Hugh Myddelton Secondary School)

II

Former prison. Part of the lowest floor of the former
Middlesex House of Detention survives below the playground and
main buildings of the former Hugh Myddelton Schools, now
Kingsway College Clerkenwell Centre. 1845-1847 by William
Moseley; altered during the Second World War for use as an
air-raid shelter. Brick, stone and wrought iron. The largest
accessible part of the prison is the former female corridor,
which runs from the south-west to the north-east, with broad
'transepts' off its middle stages. There are cells off either
side of the passage, and elsewhere, and the passage is
interrupted but not blocked by later, transverse walls acting
as screens; the walls are of brick, the roofs formed of
shallow brick arches except for one space in the 'north
transept', formerly the warders' hall and clerk's office which
has granite columns and wrought iron beams; the floor is
generally of stone. The cells have cambered-arched entrances ,
some remaining metal window grilles, and some cast iron 'eyes'
in the wall, presumably for chaining up prisoners.
The female corridor was the southernmost range of the prison;
to the north of it was a central hall, roughly underneath the
hall of the present college building, with male corridors
running off to the west, north and east, and a shorter
administrative corridor to the south; part of the western
corridor is included separately (q.v.), and some parts
underneath the present college building are used by the
college (q.v.).
(Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).

Listing NGR: TQ3149082308

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26276069

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)