Content Published August 10, 2015 Oscar Wilde memorial gate Memorial gate designed by Bruce Williams. Commissioned by Reading Borough Council in 2000, the gate is on Oscar Wilde Memorial Walk (Chestnut Walk) which runs by the side of the river Kennet and next to Reading Prison where Wilde was famously incarcerated. © Danny Callcut. gaol gate gateway government buildings image jail likeness memorial oscar wilde outline prison reading gaol representation silhouette the ballad of reading gaol