Hobart Convict Penitentiary
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Hobart Convict Penitentiary

City of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia – *No GPS coordinates

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In the early 1830's, a service in the chapel of the Van Diemen's Land Prisoners' Barracks Penitentiary was far from a serene and holy experience.

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.
In the early 1830's, a service in the chapel of the Van Diemen's Land Prisoners' Barracks Penitentiary was far from a serene and holy experience.

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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