The Reading Prison was immortalized in Oscar Wilde's 1897 poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol." Built in the mid 1800s, it remained operational until 2013. Beneath Gothic arches and metal walkways, a ...

Banksy has emerged as a possible white knight in a long-unrealized plan to transform the vacant prison where Oscar Wilde was once held into an art center. Reading Gaol has been up for sale since 2019 ...

The historic prison where writer Oscar Wilde was held for 'gross indecency' is finally set to be sold, according to campaigners. Reading Gaol - which closed in 2013 - was where Wilde was imprisoned ...

Since 2019 there's been a fight to 'save Reading Gaol' and return it to the community. A-list celebrities and famous former Reading-ites including Kate Winslet, Natalie Dormer and Kenneth Branagh have ...

Matt Rodda, the MP for Reading East, previously urged the government to allow the site to become an arts hub An MP has said he is "cautiously optimistic" after an empty jail that once held Oscar Wilde ...

An educational charity owned by a Chinese billionaire has announced plans to transform a historic Reading jail into a museum and hotel which will include robots and AI technology. Reading Gaol prison ...