The St Giles's Roundhouse was a small roundhouse or prison, mainly used to temporarily hold suspected criminals.
It was located in the St Giles area of present-day central London, between Charing Cross Road and Holborn, which – during the 17th and 18th centuries – was a 'rookery' notorious for its thieves and other criminals.
The Roundhouse was notable for being one of the prisons from which notorious thief Jack Sheppard escaped, in 1724.
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