George Wilkinson won a competition in 1835 to design a workhouse for the Thame Poor Law Union.The Workhouse: Thame The building was until 2004 a campus of Oxford and Cherwell Valley College. Wilkinson went on to design a total of two dozen workhouses in England, including those at Northleach (1835)The Workhouse: NorthleachVerey, 1970, p. 343 Stow-on-the-Wold (1836)The Workhouse: Stow-on-the-Wold and Woodstock (1836–1837),The Workhouse: Woodstock each with wings laid out in an H-plan. Wilkinson built Tenbury workhouse (1837)The Workhouse: Tenbury on a double courtyard plan. For two workhouses, Witney (1835–1836)The Workhouse: Witney and Chipping Norton (1836), he used an unusual design of a saltire of four wings radiating from an octagonal central block.The Workhouse: Chipping Norton For Wolverhampton he adapted this layout to six wings.The Workhouse: Wolverhampton In 1839 George Wilkinson was invited to Ireland as the architect of the Poor Law Commission.
