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Joseph-Jonas Dumont’s Prison Gatehouses: Architecture Parlante in Neo-Tudor Style

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Abstract

Between 1850 and 1919, nearly thirty new cellular prisons were built in Belgium to facilitate the strictly cellular regime. Joseph-Jonas Dumont (1811–1859), Belgium’s most important prison architect in the first decade(s) of the cellular building campaign, introduced the English neo-Tudor style in his prison designs. This paper explores the underlying motives and meanings of his stylistic choice.

This paper is part of my doctoral research Design and construction of the cellular prison in Belgium (1830-WWI), Ghent University.

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  1. Department of Art History, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Jozefien Feyaerts

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  1. Department of Art, Ghent Legal History Institute, FWO (Research Foundation Flanders), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Stefan Huygebaert

  2. Ghent Legal History Institute, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Georges Martyn

  3. Flemish research centre for the arts of the Burgundian Netherlands, Musea Brugge, Bruges, Belgium

    Vanessa Paumen

  4. Centre de recherches en histoire du droit et des institutions, Université Saint-Louis, Brussels, Belgium

    Eric Bousmar

  5. Centre d’histoire du droit et de la justice, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    Xavier Rousseaux

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Feyaerts, J. (2018). Joseph-Jonas Dumont’s Prison Gatehouses: Architecture Parlante in Neo-Tudor Style. In: Huygebaert, S., Martyn, G., Paumen, V., Bousmar, E., Rousseaux, X. (eds) The Art of Law. Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, vol 66. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90787-1_18

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