91³Ô¹ÏÍø

Building    From 1151  To 1780

Clink prison

Categories: Law

Clink prison

The Clink Prison is the name given to all the prisons that have stood on a number of sites in this vicinity. The first prison in 1127 was a cellar in the Palace of the Bishop of Winchester, and the last was in Deanman's Place (Park Street). Believed to be the oldest prison in England, the Clink took in its first female client in 1246. Protestants and Catholics were held here depending on which religion was uppermost at the time. Little used after the Civil War, it was burnt down in the Gordon Riots and never rebuilt.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in to see them

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Clink prison

Commemorated ati

Clink prison - blue

London Borough of Southwark The Clink, 1151 - 1780, most notorious medieval p...

91³Ô¹ÏÍø

Clink Prison - bronze

Clink Prison The Clink Prison is the name given to all the prisons that have ...

91³Ô¹ÏÍø

Other Subjects

Albert Woodfox

Albert Woodfox

Albert Woodfox was an American known as one of the Angola Three (Robert King, Herman Wallace and Woodfox) former prisoners who were held at Louisiana State Penitentiary in solitary confinement for ...

Person, Law, Race Issues, Tragedy, USA

1 memorial
Captain Geoffrei Hugh Austen-Cartmell

Captain Geoffrei Hugh Austen-Cartmell

Geoffrei Hugh Austen-Cartmell was born on 30 October 1895, the second of the three children of James Austen Cartmell (1862-1921) and Mary Affleck Cartmell née Peacock (1860-1906). Civil Registratio...

Person, Armed Forces, Law, France

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Kenny ‘Zulu’ Whitmore

Kenny ‘Zulu’ Whitmore

From a 2008 interview with Carrie Reichardt: "Black Panther Kenny ‘Zulu’ Whitmore has been locked up since 1975 in Angola, one of the most brutal prisons in the USA, also known as ‘the last slave p...

Person, Law, Race Issues, Tragedy, USA

2 memorials
Sir Thomas Plumer

Sir Thomas Plumer

Judge and politician. Called to the bar in 1778, he acted for the defence in a number of important cases. In Parliament, he sat in the pocket borough of Downton in Wiltshire, and was promoted to At...

Person, Law, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
John Roland Phillips

John Roland Phillips

Barrister at law. Involved in the reviving of the Society of Cymmrodorion in 1873. Advertised in The Welshman in 1875. Appointed first stipendiary magistrate at the West Ham court house in 1881. I...

Person, Law, Politics & Administration, Wales

1 memorial