Prison Type Local Prison - Common Gaol, Lock Up
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened 17th century
Date closed c1835 [1886]
Location courthouse, High Street Pevensey
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Sussex
Of all the official records and lists, Pevensey Gaol is only mentioned in the 1835 Royal Commission on Municipal Corporations. The gaol was attached to the courthouse, probably built in the late 16th or early 17th century. The building was modernised between 1830 and 1840. It contained two separate prison cells and an exercise yard under the court room. Primarily used as a lock up, or place of detention for those awaiting trial, but even as late as 1835 prisoners could be detailed for up to three weeks.
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened 17th century
Date closed c1835 [1886]
Location courthouse, High Street Pevensey
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 50.8201061 Long. 0.3364315
County Sussex
Of all the official records and lists, Pevensey Gaol is only mentioned in the 1835 Royal Commission on Municipal Corporations. The gaol was attached to the courthouse, probably built in the late 16th or early 17th century. The building was modernised between 1830 and 1840. It contained two separate prison cells and an exercise yard under the court room. Primarily used as a lock up, or place of detention for those awaiting trial, but even as late as 1835 prisoners could be detailed for up to three weeks.
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: PEV 105
Collection: Pevensey Corporation
Description: Order committing William Stewart to Pevensey House of Correction for one week on conviction of being an idle and disorderly person (begging alms at Westham from the Reverend William Leeke)
Dates: 1830
