The SESSIONS HOUSE and NEWGATE PRISON make way for the CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

THE TIMES

24^th OCT. 1896.

 

The Rebuilding of the Old Bailey Sessions House.

The proposed rebuilding of the Sessions House on its present site, in the Old Bailey is the subject of a report which has just been issued by the City Lands Committee of the Corporation. The committee, having referred to the fact that the proposed site on the Embankment has been abandoned, state that they instructed the surveyor to prepare sketch plans for the erection of a new Sessions-house partly on the existing site and partly on other land belonging to the Corporation in the Old Bailey. The Recorder , the Common Serjeant , Mr. H.R. Avory (the clerk of the Court) and Colonel Reamish (the surveyor to the Commissoners of Prisons) have all intimated their general approval of these plans, the proposed site including the whole of the present space occupied by the Sessions House, the female wing of Negate Prison, the yard adjoining, and Nos. 1O and 11, Old Bailey. The plans will be forwarded to her Majesty's Judges, as Commissioners of the Central Criminal Court, for their consideration and the Corporation will consider any suggestions that they may have to make.