Established in medieval times as a place to hold prisoners of the King's Bench court, primarily debtors. It was originally sited in Angel Place, off Borough High Street, just north of what is now John Harvard Library. In 1754-8 this was demolished and replaced with a new building erected to the south-west on what was then St George's Fields and is now Scovell housing estate. In 1842 it became the Queen's Prison and took debtors from the Marshalsea and Fleet Prisons. It became the Southwark Convict Prison and then closed.
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King's Bench Prison
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King of Corsica
The weather-worn stone above this plaque is, we guess, the original graveston...
Other Subjects
Philip Noble Fawcett, LL.M.
Philip Noble Fawcett was born on 7 April 1863 in Dublin, Ireland, the younger child of Henry Fawcett (1835-1882) and Mary Maria Fawcett née Noble (1834-1906). On 1 May 1863 he was baptised in St. P...
Person, Armed Forces, Law, Politics & Administration, Ireland
1 memorial
Culloden - prisoners
3,470 prisoners were taken, men women and children, and it was decided that they should all be tried in England. Seven ships carried them from Inverness on 10 June 1746. Their destinies were vari...
1 memorial
Epping Forest Act 1878
The Epping Forest Act placed all the commons and forest in the parish of Epping, except Rye Hill, under the protection and management of the City of London, thus ensuring their preservation. We le...
1 memorial
Warrant Officer Mark Isaac Azouz, D.F.C.
A member of the congregation at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue Holland Park killed serving in WW2. Mark Isaac Azouz was born on 2 July 1922 at 5 Portman Street, Glasgow, Scotland, the elder ...
War dead, WW2
3 memorials
Marshalsea Prison
Originally built to hold prisoners being tried by the Marshalsea Court and the Court of the King's Bench. Its first site, from at least 1329 was on Borough High Street on the block now bordered...
6 memorials
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