Beverley Borough Gaol

Overview

Details

Records

Overview

Alternative Names   Beverley Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol, Lock Up

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1810

Date closed   [1863]

Location   Register Square   Beverley

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Yorkshire

Critical Remarks

The site of the old House of Correction (ID 659), the Borough Gaol was relocated to these premises after 1810. By 1857 the gaol was being used as a lock up, and was officially converted into a police station in 1863.

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Beverley Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1810

Date closed   [1863]

Location   Register Square   Beverley

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   53.8412333  Long.   -0.4296705

County   Yorkshire

Critical Remarks

The site of the old House of Correction (ID 659), the Borough Gaol was relocated to these premises after 1810. By 1857 the gaol was being used as a lock up, and was officially converted into a police station in 1863.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   124

Daily Greatest number   -   8

 

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   71

Daily Greatest number   -   5

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   482

Daily Census   -   0

 

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   18

Daily Census   -   1

Principal Primary Sources

  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.62
  • Eighth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1832), Appendix, p.48
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.11
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 3 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIV.1), p.1460
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern, Third Report (Parl. Papers, 1837-38, XXXI.1), p.104; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXV.565), p.57; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXI.1), p.26; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXIX.227), p.99; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Northern District, Fourteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1849, XXVI.167), p.44; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fifteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXVIII.291), p.61; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Sixteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1851, XXVII.461), p.98; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Northern District, Twenty-third Report (Parl. Papers, 1857-58, XXIX.209), p.67

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/east/vol6/pp190-195#h3-0003; http://www.museums.eastriding.gov.uk/local-history-online/convict-connections/local-connections/gaols/

Management

Archive name: East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Local Studies Service

Catalogue ref: DDBC/21/53

Collection: Beverley Borough

Description: Questionnaire from Secretary of State relating to jurisdiction and Gaol in Beverley

Dates: 1821


Archive name: East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Local Studies Service

Catalogue ref: DDBC/21/64

Collection: Beverley Borough

Description: Memorandum of assignment from East Riding Justices to Beverley Corporation for lease of Guildhall, Prison and a close

Dates: c.1830


Finance

Archive name: East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Local Studies Service

Catalogue ref: DDBC/21/112

Collection: Beverley Borough

Description: Notice and order for raising £1200 on mortgage of the County Rate for Beverley (relates to town gaol)

Dates: 1834


Archive name: East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Local Studies Service

Catalogue ref: DDBC/27

Collection: Beverley Borough

Description: Volume assembled by Gillyatt Sumner, antiquarian, including an account of treasurer for the gaol

Dates: 1832-1835


Archive name: East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Local Studies Service

Catalogue ref: DDBC/3/23

Collection: Beverley Borough

Description: An original bundle of gaol accounts

Dates: 1837-1839


Archive name: East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Local Studies Service

Catalogue ref: DDBC/31

Collection: Beverley Borough

Description: Volume assembled by Gillyatt Sumner, Antiquarian, including Expenses of the Gaol Prisoners (1825-1827), and estimates for work at the Gaol (1827-1828)

Dates: 1825-1828


Staff

Archive name: East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Local Studies Service

Catalogue ref: DDBC/17/20-22, 26, 30

Collection: Beverley Borough

Description: Bonds for named individuals to serve as deputy gaoler

Dates: 1812-1829


Archive name: Hull University Archives

Catalogue ref: U DDX/16/375

Collection: None

Description: Handbill advertising vacancy for Gaoler for Beverley

Dates: 1814


Archive name: East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Local Studies Service

Catalogue ref: DDX1290/11/19

Collection: None

Description: Broadsheet containing list of Mayor, Aldermen, Councillors, Treasurer, Town Clerk, Sergeants at Mace, Mace Bearers, Bell Man and Gaol Keeper elected, Beverley Municipal elections

Dates: 1835


Prisoners

Archive name: East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Local Studies Service

Catalogue ref: DDBC/21/109-111

Collection: Beverley Borough

Description: Articles of agreement relating to stonemason's work at town gaol

Dates: 1832


Land & Buildings

Archive name: East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Local Studies Service

Catalogue ref: DDBC/21/106

Collection: Beverley Borough

Description: Specifications, estimates and correspondence relating to rebuilding Gaol

Dates: 1831-1832


Archive name: East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Local Studies Service

Catalogue ref: DDBC/15/73

Collection: Beverley Borough

Description: Assessment relating to Beverley Town Gaol and Gaoler's house in Register Square

Dates: 1835


Images

Archive name: East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Local Studies Service

Catalogue ref: POL/3/11/10/1

Collection: East Riding Constabulary

Description: Photograph of a Beverley Borough prisoner, with Officer

Dates: c.1860s


Other

Archive name: East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Local Studies Service

Catalogue ref: DDBC/21/107-108

Collection: Beverley Borough

Description: The Hull Advertiser (part of an original bundle relating to the Town Gaol)

Dates: 1831