Colonel Bailey’s Dungeon

Captain Bailey’s Dungeon is one of the amazing education tour spot in Mysore. Come and explore the war places and get thrilled to see it.

It has a fortress with measurements of 30.5m x 12.2m built of brick and mortar. On a lifted platform near the fort wall is the fortress where Tipu’s prisoners of war were imprisioned. In the underground of the prison hooks on the walls on to which the prisoners hands were chained can be seen. The fortress was named after Colonel Bailey who passed away here in 1780 A.D. During the military blockade at Srirangapatnam a cannon rolled back piercing the ceiling and fell into the dungeon which can still be seen here. The word Dungeon is morbid and imagination conjures up of prisoners suffering in the dark dungeons. There are shoulder height stone slabs fixed on the East, North and West walls with holes. The captives would be chained at the wrists and tied to the slab with waist deep cold water. this dungeon was used to imprison Captain Baird, Colonel Brithwite, Captain Rulay, Frazer, Samson and Lindsay by Tipu Sultan.