The Clink brown plaque
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# The Clink's Enduring Legacy on Clink Street Standing on Clink Street today, you're walking across ground saturated with nearly seven centuries of human suffering and defiance—the very site where the Bishop of Winchester's palace once concealed a dungeon in 1127, transforming a cellar into one of ...
Location
Clink Prison Museum, Soho Wharf, Clink Street
Inscription
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 Deadman's Place (Park Street). The prison held Protestant and Catholic religious martyrs at various times. It was closed in 1780, when it was burned by the anti-Catholic Gordon rioters.