Alternative Names Bury St Edmunds Town Bridewell, Bury St Edmunds Borough House of Correction
Prison Type Local Prison - Common Gaol & House of Correction/Bridewell, Lock Up
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened unknown
Date closed 1805 [1892]
Location Moyses Hall Bury St Edmunds
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Suffolk
The prison's function as a borough gaol seems to have ceased in about 1805, though Neild claimed petty offenders were still sentenced to periods of confinement in the bridewell in 1812. Continued to be used as a lock up, and from 1836 until 1892, as a police station.
Alternative Names Bury St Edmunds Town Bridewell, Bury St Edmunds Borough House of Correction
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened unknown
Date closed 1805 [1892]
Location Moyses Hall Bury St Edmunds
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 52.2464261 Long. 0.7118141
County Suffolk
The prison's function as a borough gaol seems to have ceased in about 1805, though Neild claimed petty offenders were still sentenced to periods of confinement in the bridewell in 1812. Continued to be used as a lock up, and from 1836 until 1892, as a police station.
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds Branch
Catalogue ref: EE 500/D16/2/1-2
Collection: Bury St Edmunds Borough
Description: Returns of prisoners and police expenses
Dates: 1882-1911
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds Branch
Catalogue ref: EE 500/D7/5/1-3
Collection: Bury St Edmunds Borough
Description: Gaol, deeds
Dates: 1681-1807
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds Branch
Catalogue ref: FL541/1/2
Collection: None
Description: Vestry book. Includes proposed erections of new clock on Bridewell in the Market Place.
Dates: 1787-1819
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds Branch
Catalogue ref: 1783/68/(d)
Collection: None
Description: Print 'The Borough Gaol, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.' Moyses Hall. Engraved by E. Roberts from a sketch by T. Higham. Published by Longman & Co, Paternoster Row.
Dates: 1818
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds Branch
Catalogue ref: 449/5/33
Collection: Hengrave family papers
Description: Transcripts of medieval manuscript of St Edmund's Abbey, made for John Gage. 'Collectanea Buriensia' by Jermyn and Davy. Including description of the Gaol and Borough Bridewell.
Dates: 1801-1804