[1] The new building was designed by George Gwilt the Elder, surveyor to the county of Surrey, and completed in 1799.

[2] Horsemonger Lane remained Surrey’s principal prison and place of execution up to its closure in 1878.

[4] The gaol was demolished in 1881 and replaced by the Inner London Crown Court, and a public park, Newington Gardens, which opened in 1884.

[5] In 1849, Charles Dickens attended the public hangings outside the gaol of husband and wife Frederick and Maria Manning, who had killed a friend for his money and buried him under the kitchen floor.

[6] Dickens later based the character of Hortense in Bleak House on Maria Manning, while Mrs Chivery's tobacco shop in Little Dorrit is located on Horsemonger Lane.