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Description: | This ink sketch shows Durham's north gateway. Built around 1072, it adjoined Durham Castle to the west. In the early 15th century it was largely rebuilt by Bishop Langley to house the city jail. It retained this function for the next 400 years.
Prison reformer John Howard visited Durham around the same time as Grimm. He wrote of the conditions in the jail: "The men are put at night into dungeons, on seven feet square for three prisoners - another, the 'Great Hole', has only a little window. In this I saw six prisoners, most of the them transports chained to the floor - in that situation they had been for many weeks and were very sick."
In 1819, the prisoners were removed to a new prison within Durham city. The following year, the north gate was removed to ease the flow of traffic. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Grimm, Samuel Hieronymus | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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