Bury St Edmund's Borough Gaol and House of Correction

Bury St Edmund’s Borough Gaol and House of Correction

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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

Critical Remarks

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.

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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

Critical Remarks

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.

Principal Primary Sources

James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.89

Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 4 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXV.1), p.2177

Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District. First Report (Parl. Papers, 1836, XXXV.161), p.107; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXII.1), p.168; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXV.565), p.149; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXI.1), p.166; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXIX.227), p.58; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fifteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXVIII.291), p.89; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Sixteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1851, XXVII.461), p.54

Additional Primary Sources

William White, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Suffolk (2nd edn, Sheffield, 1855), p. 195

Secondary Sources

http://www.stedmundsburychronicle.co.uk/msebuild.htm

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