Building record TQ 85 SW 103 - Late C19th workhouse mortuary, Hollingbourne, Maidstone

The following information was derived from 'workhouses.org' website and needs to be verified. Hollingbourne workhouse mortuary is said to have been built in 1895? Associated with the Hollingbourne Union workhouse. The mortuary is the only surviving building, the workhouse having been demolished in the 1920s. [See MKE32951 for the workhouse]. There are associated records in the Centre for Kentish Studies and Canterbury Cathedral Archives.

The workhouse buildings have now (2007) fallen into disrepair and all that survives intact is a mortuary, which is a small, attractive building constructed of brick with what appears from photographs to be a tiled roof. It has a wooden doorway and a cross above the entrance. (2-5)

<1> Kent County Council, 1987-, Kent County Council: holding record (Miscellaneous Material). SKE59004.

<2> Uncatalogued Archive File - Workhouses 100948 (Verbal communication). SKE59227.

<3> Peter Higginbotham, Higginbotham, Peter. 2000. The Workhouse. (Website). SKE53741.

<4> Kathryn Morrison, 1999, The Workhouse: A Study of Poor Law Buildings in England (Monograph). SKE58618.

<5> Ordnance Survey, 1908, Ordnance Survey Kent 1:2500 1908 (Map). SKE55927.