Pevensey Gaol

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Overview

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

Critical Remarks

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 Info

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

Critical Remarks

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.

Principal Primary Sources

  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 2 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIII.133), p.1018

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.pevenseyvisit.com/index.php

Prisoners

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