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Lighting

Lighting, both external and internal has been a necessary part of security and surveillance at the Prison. It has also been used to detect night time movement near the perimeter walls and in the sterile zones. According to Kerr (1998) the nineteenth century light systems were modest and just adequate for the use of prison officers on night duty. The current lighting systems are far more extensive and pervasive, as would be expected of a prison environment.


New or additional lighting, as an alternative, can be used at the Prison to highlight historic features and to illuminate the walls and buildings at night, including the form, materiality and texture of the walls. In this way it serves a contemporary aesthetic purpose.

SPECIFIC POLICY 34: In any works to the walls, evidence of original or historic lighting should be retained, with its function interpreted.

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SPECIFIC POLICY 35: New lighting systems should be discretely located and of a consistent contemporary design. The lights should preferably be set off from the walls or building fabric, or located at ground level to uplight the walls; and should not involve penetrations to the significant fabric.

SPECIFIC ACTION 27: Where feasible, and not currently in place, introduce new lighting systems to the exterior and interior faces of the perimeter walls and to the exteriors of buildings.

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