Penitentiary Chapel Historic Site

Originally designed as a chapel for the growing convict population of Hobart Town,there was also the inclusion of 36 solitary confinement punishment cells,unlit and poorly ventilated,constructed beneath the chapel floor.This chapel served the adjoining Prisoners Barracks which later became the Hobart Gaol.In late 1859 the nave and eastern transept of the chapel were converted into two Supreme Criminal Courts.The western transept remained to become a gaol chapel with an execution yard and gallows attached.