Chester City Gaol and House of Correction

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Overview

Alternative Names   Chester New City Gaol and Bridewell, Chester City Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol & House of Correction/Bridewell

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1808

Date closed   1872

Location   west of the city walls, City Walls Road   Chester

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Cheshire

Critical Remarks

Although the Chester City House of Correction was located next to the City Gaol and shared the same management, it was considered a separate institution in the 1818 Return and in the Royal Commission of 1835 (see ID 222). Official returns from 1824, however, merge the two institutions.

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Prison Info

Alternative Names   Chester New City Gaol and Bridewell, Chester City Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1808

Date closed   1872

Location   west of the city walls, City Walls Road   Chester

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   53.1912379  Long.   -2.8976623

County   Cheshire

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Critical Remarks

Although the Chester City House of Correction was located next to the City Gaol and shared the same management, it was considered a separate institution in the 1818 Return and in the Royal Commission of 1835 (see ID 222). Official returns from 1824, however, merge the two institutions.

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Prisoner Statistics

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   41

Daily Greatest number   -   28

Year 1824

Annual Committed   -   42

Daily Census   -   22

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   41

Daily Census   -   23

Year 1833

Annual Committed   -   57

Daily Census   -   17

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   348

Daily Census   -   27

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   498

Daily Census   -   79

Year 1848

Annual Confined   -   734

Daily Daily average   -   48

Year 1853

Annual Confined   -   696

Daily Daily average   -   67

Year 1858

Annual Committed   -   499

Daily Daily average   -   41

Year 1863

Annual Committed   -   613

Daily Greatest number   -   93

Year 1868

Annual Committed   -   702

Daily Daily average   -   49

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.129
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.6
  • Sixth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1824), Appendix, p.13; Seventh Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1827), Appendix, p.13; 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.5
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1825, XXIII.1), p.324; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826, XXIV.1), p.306; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826-27, XIX.365), p.277; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1828, XX.327), p.319; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1829, XIX.1), p.286; Reports and Schedules Pursuant To Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830, XXIV.1), p.287; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830-31, XII.1), p.282; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1831-32. XXXIII.197), p.283; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.1), p.308; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1834, XLVI.1), p.294; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1835, XLIV.225), p.280; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1836, XLII.1), p.188; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837, XLV.1), p.190; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837-8, XLIII.227), p.191; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXXVIII.17), p.190; Reports Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.1), p.207; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1841, XVIII.1), p.220; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXXII.1), p.223; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1843, XLIII.1), p.222; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXXIX.403), p.216; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXXVII.417), p.255; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXXIV.187), p.265; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847, XLVII.297), p.268; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847-48, LII.465), p.271
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 4 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXV.1), p.2626
  • Abstract Return of Establishment and Expenditure of Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.241), p.6
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837, XXXII.499), p.31; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXII.1), p.26; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1841 Session 2, V.1), p.25; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1843, XXV. & XXVI.249), p.106; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Tenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXIV.1), p.142; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Eleventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXI.483), p.69; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Northern District, Thirteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXVI.361), p.35; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Northern District, Fourteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1849, XXVI.167), p.73; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Sixteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1851, XXVII.461), p.39; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Nineteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1856, XXXIII.385), p.15; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Twentieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1857, Session 1, VII.313), p.8; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Twenty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1857, Session 2, XXIII.1), p.15; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-third Report (Parl. Papers, 1859, Session 1, XI.1), p.27; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1860, XXXV.1), p.23; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1860, XXXV.229), p.26; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1861, XXIX.45), p.23; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1862, XXV.93), p.29; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Twenty-ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1864, XXVI.89), p.8; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirtieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1865, XXIII.257), p.10; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1866, XXXVII.233), p.11; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1867-68, XXXIV.1), p.7; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1871, XXIX.1), p.12; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1871, XXIX.529), p.8; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1872, XXXI.169), p.5; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1873, XXXII.337), p.9

Additional Primary Sources

  • Samuel Bagshaw, History, Gazetteer and Directory of the County Palatine of Chester (Sheffield, 1850), pp.77-78

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/ches/vol5/pt2/pp213-225;

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Management

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: CCLe 3/1/29

Collection: Cheshire County Council

Description: Case and opinion re whether inhabitants of Chester ought to be committed to the City or County Gaol for offences under the Turnpike Acts 

Dates: 1825

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: QAM

Collection: Cheshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Miscellaneous Committees minutes. Including Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society, pensions of prison officers, juvenile offenders and various appointments and testimonial Committees.

Dates: 1870-1893

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZA/B/5

Collection: City of Chester Assembly

Description: Assembly book. There are many references to the Gaol in this collection of records. Typical entries concern staffing and costs (eg for a new drop in the Gaol), and records related to the sale and rebuilding.

Dates: 1801-1820

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZA/B/5/f.102, [p.203], ZA/B/5/f.123, [p.245]; ZA/B/5/f.127v, [p.254], ZA/B/5/f.129, [p.257]

Collection: City of Chester Assembly

Description: City land committee may enter agreement for building of new gaol (15 July 1803). Other records include the contractors' work on the new Gaol (1806), and an orders on removal of prisoner and demolition of the old gaol

Dates: 1803-1808

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZAC/1

Collection: City of Chester Assembly

Description: Assembly Committees minute book. Typical entries contain information on the running of the Gaol and staffing etc.

Dates: 1805-1835

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZCCB/35

Collection: Chester City Council

Description: Special Committees Minute Book, Vol. 2. Committee re goods and property of prisoners, pp. 337-9 (13 June-22 June 1854).

Dates: 1849-1857

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZD/T/1/1847-1863

Collection: Chester City Council

Description: Includes report of the Gaol Committee at a meeting at the City Gaol (23 December 1847), and staffing matters, such as appointments, accounts, materials supply such as oakum, prisoners' clothing

Dates: 1847-1854

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/89

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Bundle of miscellaneous letters and papers, mainly from Whitehall, re the administration of the Gaol

Dates: 1840-1871

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/90

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Bundle of orders for the removal of prisoners from Chester Gaol to other prisons, lunatic asylums, reformatory schools and houses of correction

Dates: 1852-1871

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/92

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Copy of the complaint by John Carroll re the treatment of prisoners confined in the Gaol with the magistrates observations on the same

Dates: 1843

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/93

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Volume containing the Acts of Parliament re prisons

Dates: undated

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAS/1

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Special Sessions minute book. Includes minutes of Magistrates' monthly meetings and special sessions re licencing, Gaol, appointments etc.

Dates: 1864-1880

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQSF/145-6

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Quarter Sessions files (October). Includes schedule for Gaol.

Dates: 1849-1850

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/59

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Report book of Visiting Magistrates

Dates: 1823-1857

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQSF/107-109 and 112

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Includes papers re proposed rebuilding or repair of the Gaol and House of Correction (1801), memorandum re flour and bread used in the House of Correction (15 June 1801), accounts and receipts re building of new Gaol and House of Correction (1803-1804), papers and accounts re new Gaol and House of Correction (1805), lists of prisoners, and other papers re the city Gaol (1811). 

Dates: 1799-1811

Finance

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/75

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Monthly returns by the Keeper of the City Gaol and House of Correction to the Justices at Petty Sessions in Chester of the fines and other sums of money received and how applied

Dates: 1848-1854

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/76

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Account book containing weekly receipts and payments

Dates: 1857-1872

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/77

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Account book of weekly pay received by warders

Dates: 1867-1872

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/78

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Account book of work done by prisoners in the City Gaol and House of Correction

Dates: 1824-1827, 1839

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZTCC/187-188

Collection: City of Chester Town Clerk

Description: Memoranda on the total expenditure on building, repairing, fitting and furnishing the City Gaol (£7,420 13s. 6d.) and the House of Correction (£9,306 2s. 8d) since 1800 (19 September 1831).

Dates: 1831

Daily Business

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/3

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Gaoler's daily report or journal

Dates: 1823-1839

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/34L

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Gaoler's daily report book or journal

Dates: 1839-1869

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/54

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Sunday School attendance register

Dates: 1839-1843

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/84-85

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Weekly register of prisoners' labour

Dates: 1863-1872

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/32

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Register of prisoners' visitors and letters received

Dates: 1844-1872

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/52-53

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Chaplains' daily report book or journal

Dates: 1844-1872

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/88

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Letter book of Henry Steel and James Long. Successively Keepers of the City Gaol

Dates: 1857-1864

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/8

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Gaoler's daily reports

Dates: 1835-1836

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/39-40

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Matrons' daily report book (female prisoners)

Dates: 1853-1869

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/42-46

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Surgeons' report books or journals

Dates: 1824-1872

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/47-50

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Surgeons' case books (with index)

Dates: 1846-1871

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/35

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Misconduct book

Dates: 1849-1872

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/36

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Gaol temperature book

Dates: 1868-1872

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/37-38

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Officers' daily report book

Dates: 1855-1861

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/60

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Bread book for the House of Correction containing the names of the prisoners and bread issued each day

Dates: 1827-1837

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/61-63

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Bread books of numbers of loaves delivered to the Gaol and House of Correction

Dates: 1858-1872

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/64

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Meat book of meat delivered to the Gaol and House of Correction

Dates: 1862-1872

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/65-68

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Tradesmens' day books (goods delivered or work done, daily)

Dates: 1853-1872

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/69-73

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Provision, receipt and consumption book

Dates: 1850-1872

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/74

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Book containing details of replacements of cleaning materials, clothes, blankets etc

Dates: 1836-1842

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/79-81

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Materials account books (stone, rope, oakum, mats etc)

Dates: 1839-1872

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/82

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Labour account book of work sold

Dates: 1840-1857

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/83

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Ledger book of work sold

Dates: 1853-1872

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/86-87

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Labour book of pauper labour, containing details of work done by paupers (named) mainly in cleaning the city streets

Dates: 1851-1854

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/95

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Selection of prayers from the Liturgy of the Church of England to be used by the prisoners confined in the City Gaol

Dates: 1867

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/51

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Extra diet book, i.e. supplied to prisoners by order of surgeon or visiting magistrates

Dates: 1866-1872

Staff

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: EDP 79/2

Collection: Diocese of Chester

Description: Chester Miscellanea. Papers relating to chaplaincy of City Gaol.

Dates: 1846-1881

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZA/B/5/f.193, [p.385]

Collection: City of Chester Assembly

Description: Assembly books. Corporation Chaplain to record his performance of divine service at City Gaol, and report on prisoners' behaviour at services (10 April 1817).

Dates: 1817

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZA/B/5/f.193-193v, [pp.385-386]

Collection: City of Chester Assembly

Description: Assembly books. Reverend Mr Fish, Corporation Chaplain, to receive an addition of £30 per annum to his salary for taking divine service at Little St John Chapel and City Gaol (24 October 1815)

Dates: 1815

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZM/F/251

Collection: Mayor of Chester

Description: Letters from the Chaplain concerning conditions in the Gaol and House of Correction

Dates: 1833-1834

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZA/B/5/f.127v, [p.254]

Collection: City of Chester Assembly

Description: Assembly book. Samuel Hughes confirmed Under-Keeper of the Northgate Gaol at a salary of £80 per annum, by order (18 September 1807).

Dates: 1807

Prisoners

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/1-11

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Registers of prisoners committed to the City Gaol (with indexes for some years)

Dates: 1808-1872

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/55

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Prisoners' denomination register

Dates: 1870

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/8

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Register of debtors committed to the City Gaol

Dates: 1827-1872

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQSMP/1

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Register of prisoners

Dates: 1853-1872

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/2

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: List of executions

Dates: 1776-1823

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/56-58

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Prisoners' character books (compiled by chaplains, with index)

Dates: 1844-1872

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/41

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Matrons' reports on one prisoner, Mary Ann Glynn

Dates: 1869-1870

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/12-14

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Number book of prisoners, taken weekly

Dates: 1830-1845

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/15-27

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Number book of prisoners, taken daily

Dates: 1853-1872

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/28-31

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Prisoners' property book (with index)

Dates: 1842-1872

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQAG/33

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Prisoners' address book (with index)

Dates: 1854-1872

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQSF/153

Collection: Chester City Quarter Sessions

Description: Quarter Sessions files for July and October include letters from prisoners relating to their terms of imprisonment, written on Gaol note paper, and containing the rules of the Gaol etc (January, April, July, October 1857). 

Dates: 1857

Land & Buildings

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: 224373

Collection: Local Studies Collection

Description: Plan of the County Hall, Gaol and Barracks at Chester

Dates: 1809

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZA/B/5/f.176, [p.351]

Collection: City of Chester Assembly

Description: Assembly book includes reference to yards at City Gaol to be flagged, and City land committee to consider plan for making Gol more secure ( April 1815) 

Dates: 1815

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZA/B/5/ff.186-186v, [pp.371-372]

Collection: City of Chester Assembly

Description: Old House of Correction to be sold by auction (12 September 1818).

Dates: 1818

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZA/B/5/ff.99v-100, [pp.198-199]

Collection: City of Chester Assembly

Description: New City Gaol to be built on land between the Infirmary and Stanley Place (18 April 1803) 

Dates: 1803

Images

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZCR 119/1079/10/p46

Collection: Frank Simpson Manuscripts

Description: Sketch - the Northgate (north)

Dates: 1800

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