Hobart Convict Penitentiary
Hobart City, Tasmania, Australia – *No GPS coordinates
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Campbell St &, Brisbane St, Hobart TAS
Hobart City, Tasmania 7000 AustraliaNo GPS information available Add GPS
- www.nationaltrust.org.au/places/penitentiary/
- (03) 6231 0911
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Add PhotosThe building, in the shape of a cruciform, was designed by John Lee Archer to make additional space for the growing number of convicts arriving in the colony. The design included thirty-six solitary confinement cells beneath the chapel floor, which were later declared inhuman.
The Penitentiary is home to incredible stories of crime and punishment in Van Diemen's Land, with courtrooms and underground tunnels, to the chapel, solitary cells, and still-working gallows of this fascinating historic convict site, which later became Hobart's old Gaol and Supreme Court.
The building, in the shape of a cruciform, was designed by John Lee Archer to make additional space for the growing number of convicts arriving in the colony. The design included thirty-six solitary confinement cells beneath the chapel floor, which were later declared inhuman.
The Penitentiary is home to incredible stories of crime and punishment in Van Diemen's Land, with courtrooms and underground tunnels, to the chapel, solitary cells, and still-working gallows of this fascinating historic convict site, which later became Hobart's old Gaol and Supreme Court.
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- Added: 21 Sep 2022
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2761616
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