Newgate onto Holborn Viaduct at the point where the Old Bailey thoroughfare joins to the south and Giltspur Street to the north. A notable discovery here was a Roman tile inscribed with a disgruntled comment that "Austalis has been going off on his own for 13 days". To the north of the street are the ruins of Christ Church Greyfriars on the site of a medieval Franciscan monastery. To the south is Paternoster Square leading towards St Paul's Cathedral. Newgate Newgate was one of the historic seven gates of the London Wall around the City of London and one of the
Newgate Prison and deep to enlarge the site of the prison and to build a new sessions house. The work followed the designs of George Dance and was almost finished when it was stormed by a mob during the Gordon riots in June 1780. The building was gutted by fire, and the walls badly damaged. The cost of repairs was estimated at £30,000. Dance’s new prison was finally completed in 1782. The new prison was constructed to an "architecture terrible" design intended to discourage law-breaking. The building was laid out around a central courtyard, and was divided into two sections: a "Common"