Whipping post
Name/Title
Whipping post
Date Made
c.1752
Medium and Materials
wood
Public Description (About this object)
A wooden whipping post used for punishment in the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields. The post is engraved '1752', with carvings of figures and angel heads on it. The post was used to deliver punishment for crimes like vagrancy, and social misdemeanours like immorality, drunkenness, blasphemy, slander and disorder.. The practice was revoked for women in 1791 and men in 1837.
Object number
SMITF.H.190