The Giltspur Street Compter was a compter or small prison, designed by English architect and surveyor George Dance the Younger, mainly used to hold debtors...

debtors. Examples of compters include London's Wood Street Compter, Poultry Compter, Giltspur Street Compter and Borough Compter and the lock-up over...

Bread Street Compter, from which many prisoners were transferred. Wood Street was closed and replaced by Giltspur Street Compter in 1791. The Compter was...

Giltspur Street is a street in Smithfield in the City of London, England, running north–south from the junction of Newgate Street, Holborn Viaduct and...

the city's authorities to move inmates to another City prison (Giltspur Street Compter), although this purpose was not achieved until 1815, following...

Fields Prison, Fleet Prison, Giltspur Street Compter, King's Bench Prison, Marshalsea Prison, Poultry Compter, and Wood Street Counter. The most famous was...

that Wedderburn "did time in Cold Bath Fields, Dorchester, and Giltspur Street Compter prisons for theft, blasphemy, and keeping a bawdy house." While...

1806 (46 Geo. 3. c. cxxxiii) Whitecross Street Prison. Newgate Prison. Giltspur Street Compter and Poultry Compter. Ludgate. Start of session Wikisource...

to serve the Spanish Embassy. Camden Town development begins. Giltspur Street Compter (prison) built. Architect John Soane begins reconstruction of the...

demolished Lansdowne House Gallery and other Alterations (1786) Giltspur Street Compter (1787–91), demolished Boydell Shakespeare Gallery (1788), demolished...

Elliot before becoming an independent organ builder. He died in Giltspur Street Compter. Little work by Avery survives, but there is an organ at Ponsonby...

name formerly located here Giltspur Street – thought to be the former location of a spurriers Gloucester Court Godliman Street – thought to be after Godalming...

The Sheriffs' Court for the Poultry Compter (City of London) The Sheriffs' Court for the Giltspur Street Compter (City of London) The Macclesfield Court...

London Sheriffs' Court for the Poultry Compter The City of London Sheriffs' Court for the Giltspur Street Compter The Macclesfield Court of Portmote The...

libel, and in January 1832 she travelled to London to visit him in Giltspur Street Compter. Sharples' arrival gave Carlile an opportunity to revive the fortunes...