Editing Newgate Prison (section)

==Legacy==
The Central Criminal Court – known as the [[Old Bailey]] after the street on which it stands – now stands upon the Newgate Prison site.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.e-architect.co.uk/london/old-bailey|title=Old Bailey|date=22 June 2007|publisher=E-Architect|access-date=18 October 2020}}</ref>

The original iron gate leading to the gallows was used for decades in an alleyway in [[Buffalo, New York]]. It is currently housed in that city at [[Canisius University]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.canisius.edu/canisius-history-1966-1990 |access-date=22 September 2021 |title=1966-1990: Protest, Promise and Progress | website=Canisius}}</ref>

The original door from a prison cell used to house [[St. Oliver Plunkett]] in 1681 is on display at [[St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Drogheda|St Peter's Church]] in [[Drogheda]], Ireland (which also displays his head).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/40980|title=Ireland: Red Wednesday Reflection by Archbishop Eamon Martin|newspaper=Independent Catholic News|date=25 November 2020|access-date=10 October 2022}}</ref>

The phrase "[as] black as Newgate's knocker" is a [[Cockney]] reference to the door knocker on the front of the prison.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peterberthoud.co.uk/2012/09/as-black-as-newgates-knocker/|title=As Black as Newgate's Knocker|website=www.peterberthoud.co.uk|access-date=3 May 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151130181156/http://www.peterberthoud.co.uk/2012/09/as-black-as-newgates-knocker/|archive-date=30 November 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Phrases-and-Sayings/Question354811.html|title=As black as newgates knocker in The AnswerBank: Phrases & Sayings|website=www.theanswerbank.co.uk|access-date=3 May 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180503154729/https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Phrases-and-Sayings/Question354811.html|archive-date=3 May 2018}}</ref>

===In literature===
A record of executions conducted at the prison, together with commentary, was published as ''[[The Newgate Calendar]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/21cc/crime/media1/calendar1/facts1/facts.html |title=Facts about the Newgate Calendar |website=The British Library |access-date=26 March 2017}}</ref>

The prison appears in a number of works by [[Charles Dickens]]. Novels include ''[[Little Dorrit]]'', ''[[Oliver Twist]]'', ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]'', ''[[Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty]]'' and ''[[Great Expectations]]''. Newgate prison was also the subject of an entire essay in his work ''[[Sketches by Boz]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/a-visit-to-newgate-from-charles-dickenss-sketches-by-boz|title='A Visit to Newgate', from Charles Dickens's Sketches by Boz|publisher=British Library|access-date=10 October 2022}}</ref>

===In song===
The Australian "Convict's Rum Song" mentions Newgate with a line reading: ''[I'd] ... even dance the Newgate Hornpipe If ye'll only gimme Rum!''.<ref name="Hughes">{{cite book |last1=Hughes |first1=Robert |title=The Fatal Shore |date=2010 |publisher=Penguin |location=London |isbn=9781407054070 |page=292}}</ref> The 'Newgate Hornpipe' refers to execution by hanging.<ref>''A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English'' by John Stephen Farmer (G. Routledge & Sons, Limited, 1921), page 305.</ref><ref name="Holgate">{{cite news |last1=Holgate |first1=Andrew |title=The Gaol: The Story of Newgate, London's Most Notorious Prison by Kelly Grovier |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/the-gaol-the-story-of-newgate-londons-most-notorious-prison-by-kelly-grovier-ftkbshqcs09 |access-date=23 November 2022 |work=Times |date=13 July 2008}}</ref>