Chichester City Gaol

Overview

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Overview

Alternative Names   Chichester City Gaol and Bridewell, Chichester Borough Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1783

Date closed   [1848]

Location   High Street (south side of East Gate of city)   Chichester

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Sussex

Critical Remarks

Last appears in the penal statistics for 1847.

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Chichester City Gaol and Bridewell, Chichester Borough Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1783

Date closed   [1848]

Location   High Street (south side of East Gate of city)   Chichester

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   50.8361828  Long.   -0.774266

County   Sussex

Critical Remarks

Last appears in the penal statistics for 1847.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   6

Daily Greatest number   -   6

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   28

Daily Census   -   28

 

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   51

Daily Greatest number   -   13

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   131

Daily Census   -   10

 

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   0

Daily Census   -   0

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.134
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.46
  • 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.150; 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.44
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (1829, XIX.401), p.100
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.29
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 2 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIII.133), p.724
  • Abstract Return of Establishment and Expenditure of Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.241), p.62
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837, XXXII.1), p.42; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXI.1), p.352; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXV.1), p.405

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol3/pp71-82