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Summary

At stokenham there are some remains of an old building called 'the prison', near the church (fox). Vis=2/2/1987 (os). According to local information a small garage, next to the church house inn, is traditionally said to have been 'the old prison'. The structure is opposite the west end of the church. It measures 6m x 3m and is 2m high. The south and west walls are of mortared stone, the other sides are mostly rebuilt with modern materials and the roof is of asbestos sheets. There is a small square window in the south wall, but nothing in the structure that can be dated. The building may have been built as a 'lock up' in the c18 or c19 though it is not described in the tithe award of 1841, but since the hundred court was anciently held at stokenham there may have been an earlier origin.(os).

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX84SW/30

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• PRISON (XVIII to XXI - 1701 AD to 2009 AD (Between))

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV174545.

Fox, s. P. /kingsbridge and its surroundings/(1874)225-6.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV174546.

Osa=sx84sw25.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, Untitled Source (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV24.

At stokenham there are some remains of an old building called 'the prison', near the church (fox). Vis=2/2/1987 (os). According to local information a small garage, next to the church house inn, is traditionally said to have been 'the old prison'. The structure is opposite the west end of the church. It measures 6m x 3m and is 2m high. The south and west walls are of mortared stone, the other sides are mostly rebuilt with modern materials and the roof is of asbestos sheets. There is a small square window in the south wall, but nothing in the structure that can be dated. The building may have been built as a 'lock up' in the c18 or c19 though it is not described in the tithe award of 1841, but since the hundred court was anciently held at stokenham there may have been an earlier origin.(os).

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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