Credit for this entry to:
Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
The stone gateway is all that remains of the early 17th century Westminster House of Correction or Bridewell later known as Tothill Fields prison. The gateway was resited here by the Greater London Council in 1969.
SW1, Little Sanctuary
IanVisits posted about this gate and included a map showing where the Bridewell used to be.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Tothill Fields Prison
Also known as Tothill Fields Bridewell, Westminster Bridewell and the Westmin...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Tothill Fields Prison
The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its lef...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Tothill Fields Prison
Here are several sorts of work for the poor of this parish St Margarets Westm...
Sir Bernard Spilsbury, 1877 - 1947, forensic pathologist, lived here, 1912 - ...
We'd hoped to find more information about the early buildings, perhaps a pict...
