Erection date: 1969
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.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...
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...
{On the marble base:} To the sacred and loving memory of the Aloysians who gave their lives for their country in the Great War. 1914 - ...
Site of Newgate, demolished 1777. The Corporation of the City of London
Sir Ambrose Heal, 1872 - 1959, furniture designer, and retailer lived here 1901 - 1917. English Heritage
Historian Sir David Cannadine, and Frances Spalding, Fry's biographer, were present at the unveiling.
Arthur Lowe, 1915 - 1982, comedy actor, lived here, 1969 - 1982. The Dead Comics Society
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