The only surviving remnants of the Marshalsea, a notorious prison in Southwalk, are a brick wall and two original gate arches.
The remains of the once-imposing prison now lie crumbling in a public park that was created around the original site. A portion of The Marshalsea's high wall that includes its entrance gate is still standing, just north of the church of St. George the Martyr, and can be indentified by a small commemorative plaque that was added by the local government. St. George's has come to be known as "Little Dorrit's Church," because it was where the novel's young heroine was baptized and later married. Today, her likeness is represented in a corner of the stained-glass window found on the east side of the church. The Marshalsea was already closed by the time Dickens began writing LITTLE DORRIT in 1855, and all but this last wall, which is adjacent to a pathway that leads to the Southwark Studies Library, was demolished sometime afterward
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Location: Gardens off Tabard Street, Southwalk, London
Photo credit: © John Gaffen 2 / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: history, prison, remnants, southwalk, wall, yard], {curch
