The Glover Stone

The Glover Stone once stood at the corner of Bunce Street and Castle Street, where it had two uses: the first was as a boundary marker and the second as a place for glovers to prepare skins for making gloves by scraping them on the stone. Criminals sentenced in the castle's county court were taken here by the constable to be handed over to the city's sheriffs. They were then carted to Boughton for execution, or, if the crime was sufficiently petty, to be whipped around the city. The stone disappeared in the late eighteenth century, but has been tentatively identified by local historian Gordon Emery as the one shown in the photo below, now located in the Water Tower Gardens. Certainly, the stone is of bluestone, and must have been brought some distance.

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