Prison Type Local Prison - House of Correction/Bridewell
Jurisdiction County
Date opened 1835
Date closed 1850
Location Ipswich Road Colchester
Map location in the vicinity
County Essex
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction County
Date opened 1835
Date closed 1850
Location Ipswich Road Colchester
Map location in the vicinity
Lat. 51.888024 Long. 0.8903295
County Essex
Year 1838
Annual Confined - 183
Daily Census - 193
Year 1843
Annual Confined - 341
Daily Census - 49
Year 1848
Annual Confined - 269
Daily Daily average - 28
Archive name: Essex Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/ACM 1-9
Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions
Description: General Committee minutes. Include reports of the Gaol Committee and much relevant material on the administration of the county gaols and houses of correction (including improvements, staffing, labour)
Dates: 1796-1897
Archive name: Essex Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/AGp 15
Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions
Description: Examinations on prison discipline by Quarter Sessions gaol committee. Including evidence of Officers of Gaols and Houses of Correction on such matters as staffing, salaries, living conditions, cost, feeding arrangements, employment of prisoners, exercise, and effect of sentences, with analysis and statistics.
Dates: 1841-1844
Archive name: Essex Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/CR 4/1-3
Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions
Description: Returns. Of expenses of prisons and houses of correction (1815-1838); of the number of prisoners in the gaols and houses of correction (1830-1849)
Dates: 1815-1849
Archive name: Essex Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/CR 4/4
Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions
Description: Annual returns required by 1823 Gaol Act submitted by each county prison on printed forms giving particulars under 34 heads. Colchester House of Correction
Dates: 1844-1850
Archive name: Essex Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/SBb 378 onwards
Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions
Description: Quarter Sessions bundles include individually catalogued reports of the Keepers, Chaplains, Surgeons and Visiting Justices of the County's Gaols, including Colchester and Newport Houses of Correction, the Gaol, House of Correction and Convict Gaol at Chelmsford, Ilford House of Correction, and Springfield Gaol. The records also include accounts, staff appointments and dismissals, dietaries and labour accounts, and correspondence on prison conditions and prisoners. Up to mid 1840s, contents described in great detail.
Dates: 1800 onwards
Archive name: Essex Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/FAC 5/1-15
Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions
Description: County Treasurers' Special Accounts: Gaols and Houses of Correction
Dates: 1767-1849
Archive name: Essex Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/AGb 4/1-2
Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions
Description: Colchester House of Correction, building contracts, specifications and plans, County Gaols and Houses of Correction
Dates: 1831-1832