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| The South-Gate and Tower, Southampton |
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| Brief Description: View of the South Gate and God's House Tower, Southampton in 1772. |
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| Subject Date: 1772 |
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| Creator: S Hooper; Francis Grose |
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| Owner: Hampshire Library and Information Service |
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| Contributor: Hampshire Library and Information Service |
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| Full Description: The engraving forms plate 97 of Francis Grose. [1784]. The Antiquities of England and Wales, volume 2, opposite p. 225. These buildings housed, at the time the print was published, the prison for the town. The Bridewell (house of correction) had been settled in South Gate since 1707. The debtors' and felons' prisons had moved to God's House Tower in 1775 from the old prison in the Bargate at a conversion cost of £140. The debtors' prison was in the tower itself, the felons' gaol within the gallery between the tower and gatehouse. They stayed here until a new gaol was built in 1854-5. The small sheds adjoining the tower had, according to Grose, been run up since 1761.
Also seen on the platform, "mounted on an uncommon carriage", is the bronze cannon made by Arcanus of Cesena in 1542 for Henry VIII, and subsequently presented by him to the town. It is now in Tudor House garden.
To the left is part of the quay; to the right, distant towers on the east wall.
Reference (for the prison):
Davies, J Silvester. 1883. A History of Southampton, p. 101-102. |
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| Collection: The Hampshire Collection |
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| Place: Southampton, Hampshire |
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| Subject: South Gate, God's House Tower, South Tower, prison, gaol, Bridewell, house of correction, Town Walls, defence, quay, east wall, cannon, bronze cannon |
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| Name Subject: Henry VIII, Arcanus of Cesena |
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| Content Type: Print |
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| Location: Winchester Library - Jewry Street |
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| Local Ref: H 72.1; 161 |
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| Unique ID: hs-hl-hs5956-i-00-000.jpg |
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