Canterbury City Bridewell

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Overview

Prison Type   Local Prison -  House of Correction/Bridewell

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1729

Date closed   1853

Location   Poor Priests' Hospital, Stour Street   Canterbury

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Kent

Critical Remarks

Last appears in the Digest in 1853. Likely closed around this time as a new Union workhouse was opened in another part of town.

Prison Info

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1729

Date closed   1853

Location   Poor Priests' Hospital, Stour Street   Canterbury

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   51.2787702  Long.   1.0777664

County   Kent

Critical Remarks

Last appears in the Digest in 1853. Likely closed around this time as a new Union workhouse was opened in another part of town.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   83

Daily Greatest number   -   11

 

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   61

Daily Greatest number   -   5

 

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   58

Daily Census   -   4

 

Year 1848

Annual Confined   -   75

Daily Daily average   -   5

 

Year 1853

Annual Confined   -   20

Daily Daily average   -   0

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.104
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.24
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.27
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 2 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIII.133), p.705
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Tenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXIII.1), p.308; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Fourteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXVIII.1), p.73; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Fifteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1851, XXVII.1), p.97

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol11/pp184-199