George Wilkinson (architect)

George Wilkinson won a competition in 1835 to design a workhouse for the Thame Poor Law Union.

Wilkinson went on to design a total of two dozen workhouses in England, including those at Northleach (1835)[3][4] Stow-on-the-Wold (1836)[5] and Woodstock (1836–1837),[6] each with wings laid out in an H-plan.

For two workhouses, Witney (1835–1836)[8] and Chipping Norton (1836), he used an unusual design of a saltire of four wings radiating from an octagonal central block.

[10] In 1839 George Wilkinson was invited to Ireland as the architect of the Poor Law Commission.

Mary was a daughter of John Williams Clinch (1788–1871) the Witney brewer, banker and landowner.