14-597: Everton Lock-Up , sometimes referenced by one of its nicknames such as Prince Rupert's Tower or Prince Rupert's Castle , is a village lock-up located on Everton Brow in Everton, Liverpool . The 18th-century structure is one of two Georgian lock-ups that still survive in Liverpool ; the other is in Wavertree . It is famous for being the centre-piece of the crest of Everton F.C. The Grade II-listed building , which
28-579: A presumption of acceptance applies to buildings earlier than 1840. Some are local heritage attractions; others are in a ruinous state; others have been converted into parts of homes, yards or gardens. A register of these structures, including those which have been lost, is held by the Village Lock-up Association. The crest of Everton Football Club features Everton Lock-Up which still stands on Everton Brow, Liverpool. D. H. Lawrence and his German-born wife Frieda had to report to
42-614: A sub-description: the punishment or village round-house ( Welsh : rheinws, rowndws ). Village lock-ups, though usually freestanding, were often attached to walls, tall pillar/tower village crosses or incorporated into other buildings. Varying in architectural strength and ornamentation, they were all built to perform the same function. They have acquired local nicknames and descriptions including blind-house, bone-house, bridewell , village cage, punishment cage, jug, kitty, lobby, guard-house, round-house/roundhouse, tower and watch-house. The majority of surviving village lock-ups date from
56-522: The Royalist cavalry of Charles I is said to have looked down on the fortress and dismissed it with the words: "It is a crow’s nest that any party of schoolboys could take!". It eventually fell after a week of heavy fighting and the loss of 1,500 of his men. A depiction of the Everton Lock-Up has appeared on the crest of professional football club Everton F.C. since 1938. In 2003, a plaque
70-527: The 18th and 19th centuries when rural communities struggled to police thefts, burglaries, shootings, drunkenness, the obstruction of watchmen and the stealing of livestock. During this period a number of lock-ups were built, by official decree, as a temporary place of detention for local rogues and miscreants until they could be removed to a town. For example, in 1790 the Derbyshire court of quarter sessions issued an order that required that "all parishes in
84-551: The building. It is sometimes called Prince Rupert's Tower, though it was in fact erected 143 years after Prince Rupert 's Royalist Army camped in the area during the English Civil War Siege of Liverpool in 1644. It is likely the name arose because Everton Brow was historically where preparations were made to attack the Parliamentarian garrison holding Liverpool Castle . Prince Rupert, as commander of
98-433: The confinement of drunks , who were usually released the next day, or to hold people being brought before the local magistrate . The archetypal form comprises a small room with a single door and a narrow slit window, grating or holes. Most lock-ups feature a tiled or stone-built dome or spire as a roof and are built from brick, stone and/or timber . Such a room was built in many shapes; many are round, which gives rise to
112-460: The county where there is not already a Round House, House of correction , or Gaol , shall provide a place of temporary confinement for the reception of vagrants , paupers , felons and the like". Over time they became synonymous with drunkenness and many references to this coupling can be found in famous works of literature, including Barnaby Rudge (1841) by Charles Dickens , and The Water-Babies (1863) by Charles Kingsley , which contains
126-493: The line: An 1830 description of a lock-up in Taunton describes "... a hole into which drunken and bleeding men were thrust and allowed to remain until the following day when the constable with his staff of office take the poor, crippled and dirty wretches before a magistrate, followed by half the boys and idle fellows of the town". Some lock-ups also had stocks , ducking stools , pillories , or pinfolds , alongside them and
140-3189: The lock-up in Wirksworth during the First World War when they lived at Middleton-by-Wirksworth. In 1281 an analogous building (the Tun) was erected in Cornhill , central London – a two-storey barrel shaped design with a single cell on each floor. Barton-le-Clay , Clophill , Harrold , Silsoe Aldermaston , Pangbourne Westbury-on-Trym Amersham , Great Missenden , Wendover , West Wycombe Broughton , Burwell , Coveney , Eaton Socon , Fen Drayton , Fenstanton , Litlington , (Holywell-cum-) Needingworth , Parson Drove , Sawtry Farndon , Farnworth , Kelsall , Winsford Lower Allithwaite Alfreton , Ashbourne ?, Curbar , Cromford ( Derwent Valley Mills ), Sandiacre , Smisby , Swarkestone (ruin), Ticknall , Wirksworth Gillingham , Lyme Regis , Swanage Barnard Castle , Staindrop Alfriston , Lewes , Pevensey Bradwell-on-Sea , Braintree , Canewdon , Great Bardfield , Great Dunmow , Orsett , Steeple Bumpstead , Thaxted (in Guildhall ), Tollesbury Bisley , Bibury , Cirencester , Moreton-in-Marsh , Stroud , Thornbury , Westerleigh Cranford , Hampstead, Petersham Easton (demolished), Odiham Bridstow, Leintwardine, Yarpole Anstey , Ashwell , Barley , Buntingford , Shenley Dartford , Lenham , Wateringbury Bury, North Meols, Poulton le Fylde?, Prescot Barrow-upon-Soar , Breedon-on-the-Hill , Castle Donington?, Packington , Worthington Deeping St James , Digby Everton , Wavertree Docking, Horsham St Faith, Great Yarmouth, Thetford?, Walsingham? Weldon Stamfordham Edwinstowe ?, Mansfield Woodhouse ?, Tuxford Banbury, Bicester, Burford, Filkins , Stonesfield , Wheatley Prees Bathford , Buckland Dinham, Castle Cary , Frome , Kelston , Kilmersdon, Kingsbury Episcopi , Mells, Merriott, Monkton Combe , Nunney , Publow in Pensford , Nether Stowey , Watchett, Wells, Wrington Alton , Gnosall , Penkridge, Stafford: Forebridge Sproughton , Stoke by Nayland, Woolpit East Grinstead Charlwood , Ewell , Lingfield Box , Bradford-on-Avon , Bromham , Chippenham, Devizes, Great Bedwyn, Heytesbury, Hilperton , Lacock , Luckington , Shrewton , Steeple Ashton , Trowbridge , Warminster Addingham?, Fairburn, Illingworth, Heptonstall, Holmfirth (Holm Valley), Hunmanby, Workhouse Farm of Holme upon Spalding Moor Horbury in Wakefield, Kirkheaton, Luddenden, Nether Poppleton?, North Stainley ?, Oswaldkirk , Rastrick, Rotherham, Seamer, Snaith, Throp Arch, Topcliffe?, Wath-upon-Dearne Vagrancy Too Many Requests If you report this error to
154-499: The origins of the 18th-century village lock-up evolved from much earlier examples of holding cells and devices. The Oxford English Dictionary refers to a round-house as a place of detention for arrested persons and dates its first written usage to 1589. The rooms fell out of use when the County Police Act 1839 was introduced and more stations were built with their own holding facilities. The Act allowed justices of
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#1732790697878168-515: The peace to set up a paid police force in each county and made it compulsory for that force to be provided with proper police stations and secure cells. The village lock-up became a redundant edifice as a result and only a small fraction have survived. During World War II many were used by the Home Guard as sentry posts and arms stores. In recent decades many owners have repaired these structures and/or seen nomination as listed buildings ;
182-579: Was added to the building stating the importance of its sporting association. In May 1997, Everton gave £15,000 for renovating the structure and in February 2014 Everton Lock-Up was permanently illuminated blue. Village lock-up A village lock-up is a historic building once used for the temporary detention of people in England and Wales , mostly where official prisons or criminal courts were beyond easy walking distance. Lockups were often used for
196-464: Was opened in 1787, was originally an overnight holding place where local drunks and criminals were taken by parish constables . Prisoners would then be brought before local Justice of the peace for trial. Punishments would usually be similar to community service such as clearing ditches, unblocking drains or removing rubbish. The Friends of Everton Park have included the lock-up in their Everton Park Heritage Trail with information boards displayed near
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