Galleries Of Justice Ghost Hunt - Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
The Galleries of Justice a notorious building with a grizzly past.

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Within the City of Nottingham this historic and striking building is notorious for its grizzly past as the building has been a court and prison since it's erection in 1375, and later used as a police station. Those disobeying the law could be arrested, tried, convicted, sentenced and executed all within its foreboding walls.

Public executions were held outside the front of the building on a scaffold erected over the stone steps with an iron palisade in place to prevent the heckling crowds from getting too close to those awaiting their untimely demise. Records show that several spectators were trampled underfoot and killed on the steps of Nottingham Contemporary, owing to the executions drawing such large crowds to see the condemned hang. The last public execution took place in front of the National Justice Museum in 1864 and was a hanging for murder.

From 1905 to 1985 the building was used as a police station and the court closed its doors to the public for the last time in 1986.

This infamous building is a hotspot for paranormal activity and considered one of the most haunted buildings in England. Staff and visitors alike have reported a vast range of paranormal activity within the building including hearing disembodied voices, the feeling of being watched, unseen hands pushing and touching visitors and blood curdling screams echoing through the chambers.

Are you brave enough to sit in the condemned man’s cell in complete darkness? What or who will you encounter at the Galleries of Justice?

Ghosts of The Galleries of Justice

This infamous building is a hotspot for paranormal activity and considered one of the most haunted buildings in England. Staff and visitors alike have reported a vast range of paranormal activity within the building including hearing disembodied voices, the feeling of being watched, unseen hands pushing and touching visitors and blood curdling screams echoing through the chambers.

Follow in the footsteps of the poor souls who knew that they were probably the last steps they would ever take before being executed regardless of their crime. This is an amazing opportunity to investigate what is reputed to be one of Nottingham’s most haunted buildings. With so much history and reported paranormal activity who knows what you will encounter as you call out into the darkness.

History of The Galleries of Justice

The Galleries are situated on High Pavement in the Lace Market area of Nottingham. The earliest confirmed use of the site for official purposes was by the Normans, who appointed sheriffs to keep the peace and collect taxes; hence the site was sometimes referred to as the Sheriff's Hall, the County Hall or the King's Hall. The first written record of the site being used as a law court dates from 1375.

The first written reference to its use as a prison is in 1449 and over the centuries, the courts and prison were developed and enlarged changing the look of the building.

Executions were held on a scaffold erected over the stone steps in front of the central doorway, within the small enclosure created by closing the gates of the iron railings. The drop was described as approximately level with the lintel of the door. Three small square stone insets in the steps are, in local legend, the sockets where the "Three-legged Mare" scaffold feet were set. After the abolition of public executions in 1868, most hangings took place at the Borough Gaol but on 21 November 1877 Thomas Gray was hanged in a yard at the rear of the Shire Hall

The museum today is housed in a former Victorian courtroom, prison, and police station and is therefore a historic site where an individual could be arrested, tried, sentenced and executed. The courtrooms date back to the 14th century and the gaol to at least 1449.