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Gatehouse (HM Prison)
Gatehouse Prison was a Westminster prison which was originally incorporated into a prison from the Westminster Abbey gatehouse during the 14th century. It was also one of the prisons which supplied the Old Bailey with information on former prisoners such as their identity or prior criminal records for making indictments against criminals and, throughout the 17th century, held many dissenters and those charged with treasonous crimes such as Laurence Voux] [[Richard Lovelace], [[Samuel Pepys, Henry Savile and Sir Walter Raleigh] (the latter two eventually tranfered to the [[Tower of London) before it was eventually torn down in 1776.
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