The chapel at Port Arthur convict prison in Tasmania - 1880s

            From 1833 until 1853, it was the destination for the hardest of convicted British criminals, those who were secondary offenders having reoffended after their arrival in Australia. Rebellious personalities from other convict stations were also sent there. In addition, Port Arthur had some of the strictest security measures of the British penal system. It was abandoned as a prison in 1877.

The following information comes from research done by Lins Oz in comment below:
This photo was included in an album of 12 albumen photoprints - 'Settlement of Port Arthur (Penal Settlement), Past and Present, / Photographed by Anson Bros., Wellington Bridge, Hobart'.
This photo was named as '7. Chapel, Model Prison'.
The State Library of NSW has three copies of the album - and other albums in private hands have had the photos removed for sale individually.
This photo is claimed elsewhere to be 1880 - which might tie in with the closure of Port Arthur as a prison in 1877 - and the state of the building as shown.
J.W. Beattie was employed at Anson Brothers, 1882-1891.
In 1891, Beattie purchased the studio and its stock, later printing under his own name.

From Kay Daniels' book on Convict Women
... model prison built at Port Arthur in 1848, which emulated in the beautiful rural setting of the Tasman Peninsula the carceral machine that was Pentonville. There the aim was the reformation of the individual through the application of the ideas of the reformers in their most pristine form. The architecture of the model prison transformed observation into surveillance. Seperation came to mean isolation, in individual cells and ultimately the dark cell. Hoods worn during exercise, partioned boxes in the chapel and the command of silence were all designed to create anonymity and prevent prisoners from communicating with each other...



   

Taken on: January 7, 2020

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