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Description: | This view is from Robert Mudie. 1838. Hampshire, volume 1, opposite p. 210. At that time, the Bridewell (house of correction) was situated over the South Gate (left of centre in the print). It had moved here in 1707. A description in 1810 says it consisted of three rooms: a dayroom about 15 feet square, and two bedrooms each 12 feet by 9 feet. The borough allowed a crib bedstead, straw-in-ticking bed, two blankets and a rug for each. There was no courtyard, nor any employment for the prisoners, nor a proper division between the sexes.
The debtors' prison was in God's House Tower (on the right of the print) with the felons' prison in the gallery between the tower and gatehouse. Both moved here in 1775 from the Bargate. The tower, a heavy structure with flanking towers projecting boldly into the ditch, now (2004) houses the city's archaeological museum.
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Davis, J Silvester. 1883. A History of Southampton, p. 101-102. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | God's House Tower South Gate South Tower Bridewell prison house of correction gaol Town Walls | Temporal: | start=1838-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | G H Shepherd; James Robbins; D E Gilmour, J Shury and Son | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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