Chester House of Correction

Overview

Details

Records

Overview

Prison Type   Local Prison -  House of Correction/Bridewell

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1808

Date closed   [1818]

Location   adjacent to City Gaol (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 (ID 94) and shared the same management, it was considered a separate institution in the 1818 Return and in the Royal Commission of 1835. Official returns from 1824, however, merge the two institutions.

Prison Info

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1808

Date closed   [1818]

Location   adjacent to City Gaol (City Walls Road)   Chester

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

County   Cheshire

Critical Remarks

Although the Chester City House of Correction was located next to the City Gaol (ID 94) and shared the same management, it was considered a separate institution in the 1818 Return and in the Royal Commission of 1835. Official returns from 1824, however, merge the two institutions.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   26

Daily Greatest number   -   21

Principal Primary Sources

  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.6
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 4 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXV.1), p.2626

Management

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZM/F/216

Collection: Mayor of Chester

Description: Papers relating to outbreaks of fever in the House of Correction

Dates: 1800-1801


Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZM/F/233

Collection: Mayor of Chester

Description: Papers relating to outbreaks of fever in the House of Correction

Dates: 1817-1818


Finance

Archive name: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: ZQFA/1

Collection: Chester Quarter Sessions

Description: Public accounts. Expenditure includes supplies to the House of Correction.

Dates: 1828-1836


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