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Nottingham Shire Hall Build part 2
Recommendations: 3
About the Project
After completing my build of the shire hall I decided to tackle the rebuilt hall, mist of which still stands today
Related Genre: Historical
This Project is Completed
The design
The shire hall in Nottingham had been the seat of law and irdervsince the 14 hundreds housing both courts and gaol. By the 18th century it was clear the building was no longer fit for service with crumbling walls and collapsing floors. In the 1770s young architect James Gandon won the competition to design a new hall. Thus would include two new courts while the gaol remained at its rear. His design here is a typical georgian design using classical architecture for inspiration. They decided not to bother with the statues but the plan to build it went ahead 
By the victorian age hangings were taking place on the buildings front steps so a barrier was put up to keep crowds back and this gives us an illustration of the building.
In 1870 a hundred years after it was built someone took a photograph of the building. By then public execution had been abolished. In 1877 the building was expanded after a fire had damaged the courts. Gandons original design remained but the victorians expanded to it and embellished it a little adding fire escapes. 
Today Gandons original building still stands. Mynplan was to cut back the victorian and 20th century embellishments to its original appearance My design
The great thing about georgian architecture is it's symmetrical so I only had to design half the building in sketch up and glip the image in the printer to create the two parts.
In the resin printer. I printed a tiny version first as a test before doing something bigger to git my minis
Gallows
The railings I was most proud of because I can print of lots of these znd use them in games.
The gallows were tricky because they were built on the steps do are a funny shape but I stuck to designing half and flipping it.
Putting it together
I had to design the gallows to fit right. In reality they hook a carpenter 6 hours to build and the noise kept the prisoners awake. One warder was arrested for climbing over the gallows while drunk after trying to return to work after a pub session. 
In 1844 12 people died in the crush to see a hanging. During the wait for the hanging people's hats were stolen and tossed across the crowd. Some people were even forced into the air and thrown about like involuntary crows surfing. More police would attend later hangings 
Between 10 men were hanged on the steps the last one in 1864 and the biggest gap between them was 16 years as the victorians only really hanged murderers
As folk began to speak against the practice a sheet was put up so when the condemned dropped they vanished from view which made it a bit pointless. They also placed hessian savks against the railings so the body didn't bang against the bars
Paint job
Obviously I can take a look at the front of the building for paint references and there are some different shades of sandstone 
The finished model
I found this build easier than the last shire hall thanks to the symmetrical nature of the building and the gallows completes the look. 
