Royal Army Medical College

[2] The site, including that of the Tate Gallery (which opened in 1897), was previously occupied by the Millbank Prison from 1821 to the late 19th century.

The college was built by John Henry Townsend and Wilfred Ainslie in Imperial Baroque style.

They also designed the adjoining Regimental Officers' Mess and Commandant's House, in French Renaissance style.

[5] The Royal Army Medical College was renamed the Royal Defence Medical College on 1 April 1996, offering tri-service post graduate training in a variety of disciplines, including military surgery, medicine, pathology, psychiatry, preventative medicine, entomology, general practice and dental sciences.

[6] After teaching transferred to the Royal Hospital Haslar in Gosport in 1999,[6] the college was removed to Fort Blockhouse.

Ordnance Survey maps of London extract for 1916. This shows clearly the octagonal outline of the former penitentiary surrounding the small site. At the centre is the National Gallery of British Art, afterwards known as the Tate Gallery, and now as Tate Britain , with the college in the south of the site and hospital in the north. Most of the streets remain as at 2012 apart from Bulinga Street, most of which has been built over, and Dundonald Street which has been renamed ' John Islip Street '. There is a 'Census Office' at the rear of the gallery, long since gone.