Barking workhouse’s pediment plaque restored and goes on display

A moss-covered stone slab that sat for decades in a back garden has been restored and installed in a public location close to where it once stood.This is the header plaque that once stood at the top of the Barking Workhouse, built in 1788 to replace older workhouses under the Barking Workhouse Act, which had transferred responsibility from the parish to ‘Directors of the Poor’.
The Barking workhouse was one of the largest in Essex, and probably the grandest with its Neo-Palladian fro