Built by Henry VIII, who lived there 1515-23. It deteriorated so that Edward VI gave it to the City of London who then used it as a prison, hospital (actually school) and workrooms. "Bridewell" was a term adopted by other London prisons.
The picture shows an early 19th-century imaginary reconstruction of Bridewell Palace c. 1660, showing the entrance to the Fleet River.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Bridewell Palace / Prison
St Bride Foundation Institute The memorial stone of the St Bride Foundation ...
Here stood the palace of Bridewell built by Henry VIII in 1523 and granted by...
The Clink Prison is the name given to all the prisons that have stood on a number of sites in this vicinity. The first prison in 1127 was a cellar in the Palace of the Bishop of Winchester, and the...
Antiquarian, lawyer, politician and writer. His name was also spelt Lambarde. Born London, he studied law at Lincoln's Inn, wrote the 'Perambulation of Kent', (the first English county history) and...
Robert Hillary King, also known as Robert King Wilkerson, is an American known as one of the Angola Three (King, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox) former prisoners who were held at Louisiana State...
Author of the first History of Hampstead which he published aged 16. Celebrated career in law. Son of Thomas Park.
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton, Lady Stirling-Maxwell, was an active English social reformer and author. She left her husband in 1836. He sued her close friend Lord Melbourne, then the Prime Minis...
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