Execution Chair, Lancaster Castle

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iBase ID

227180

Reference identifier

nla08092008001

Title

Execution Chair, Lancaster Castle

Place

Lancaster

Personal names

jane scott

General notes

This office high chair is said to have been modified specifically for use in the execution of Jane Scott in 1828. In 1827, Jane Scott from Preston was charged with the murder of her parents John and Mary Scott. She was acquitted of the murder of her father but a second trial was ordered for the death of her mother and she remained incarcerated at Lancaster Castle until the following, by which time she was in so poor physical health that she was unable to walk, hence the need for the chair to take her to the gallows on 22nd March 1828. However, contemporary newspaper reports of the execution make no mention of a chair stating that two woman orderlies carried her to the scaffold.

Medium

Photographic print

Colour

Monochrome

Original image size

21.03 x 14.69

Year of image

unknown

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Locator

K17

Subjects

BUILDINGS > Castles and Halls

Place Names > Lancaster

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