Converse of object

• erect: In 1837, the East Ashford Union erected a workhouse on the west side of Kennington Road in Ashford.

Adjective modifier

• recorded: A parliamentary report of 1777 recorded parish workhouses in operation at Lutterworth for up to 30 inmates, and at Gilmorton for 18.

• purpose-built: A new purpose-built workhouse was erected on Grove Road in Richmond in 1786-7.

• former: In 1948, the former workhouse became a general hospital.

• Victorian: It was everyone's idea of what a Victorian workhouse should look like.

Modifies a noun

• infirmary: The original workhouse infirmary lay directly to the south of the main building.

• inmate: The workhouse inmates ' day was governed by the workhouse bell.

• chapel: Across Suffolk, Exning workhouse chapel has during the last few decades been converted into an Anglican church.

• master: The workhouse master decided what food children under 9 received.

• building: A separate asylum building was later erected at the rear workhouse building.

• uniform: All their belongings were taken away and they were given a workhouse uniform to wear.

Noun used with modifier

• parish: Up to 1834 The first Leeds parish workhouse was opened in 1638 on North Street at the top of Lady Lane.

• township: A township workhouse also operated at Over Darwen, at the western end of what is now Police Street.

• inmate: Inmates Workhouses, List of those visited in 1867 With Name of the Workhouse and numbers of insane, idiotic, and imbecile inmates.

• union: On Tuesday, January 9, at the union workhouse, Malton, Wm.

Preposition: in

• operation: Up to 1834 A parliamentary report of 1777 recorded a parish workhouse in operation in St Pancras for up to 120 inmates.

Preposition: from

• southwest: Oundle parish workhouse from the southwest, 2000. © Peter Higginbotham.

• southeast: Clonmel new workhouse from the southeast, 2000. © Peter Higginbotham.

• northwest: Clonmel new workhouse from the northwest, 2000. © Peter Higginbotham.

Preposition: for

• inmate: In 1777, Napton also had a parish workhouse for 20 inmates.