Prison Type Local Prison - Common Gaol & House of Correction/Bridewell
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened 1831
Date closed 1860
Location Pepper Lane (formerly Gaol Lane) & Bayley Lane Coventry
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Warwickshire
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened 1831
Date closed 1860
Location Pepper Lane (formerly Gaol Lane) & Bayley Lane Coventry
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 52.4077489 Long. -1.5085031
County Warwickshire
Year 1833
Annual Committed - 246
Daily Census - 36
Year 1838
Annual Confined - 261
Daily Census - 46
Year 1843
Annual Confined - 573
Daily Census - 61
Year 1848
Annual Confined - 547
Daily Daily average -
Year 1853
Annual Confined - 564
Daily Daily average - 63
Year 1858
Annual Committed - 497
Daily Daily average - 53
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 24/h/iii/599
Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Gaolkeepers' certificates and annual returns
Dates: 1836-1837
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 64/1/12
Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Order books, orders and Gaolers reports
Dates: 1838-1841
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 63/61
Collection: Coventry Quarter Sessions
Description: Bundle of papers, including an inventory and valuation of contents of the Gaol and House of Correction (1843). Also, election of the Governor and Matron the House of Correction (1848).
Dates: 1843, 1848
Archive name: Coventry Archives and Research Centre
Catalogue ref: BA/E/2/114/1
Collection: Coventry Borough Archives
Description: Yearly returns
Dates: 1824-1835
Archive name: Coventry Archives and Research Centre
Catalogue ref: BA/E/2/115/1-3
Collection: Coventry Borough Archives
Description: Annual returns
Dates: 1836-1842
Archive name: Coventry Archives and Research Centre
Catalogue ref: BA/E/2/117/1
Collection: Coventry Borough Archives
Description: Copy of resolution enabling the admission of up to forty Warwickshire prisoners
Dates: 1836
Archive name: Coventry Archives and Research Centre
Catalogue ref: BA/E/2/118/1
Collection: Coventry Borough Archives
Description: Inspecting Committee's report
Dates: 1836
Archive name: Coventry Archives and Research Centre
Catalogue ref: BA/E/2/119/1-9
Collection: Coventry Borough Archives
Description: Letters about the Gaol's state
Dates: 1836-1837
Archive name: Coventry Archives and Research Centre
Catalogue ref: BA/E/2/120/1
Collection: Coventry Borough Archives
Description: Temporary restrictions
Dates: 1837
Archive name: Coventry Archives and Research Centre
Catalogue ref: BA/E/2/92/2
Collection: Coventry Borough Archives
Description: Memoranda to order book, initially undated
Dates: 1859
Archive name: Coventry Archives and Research Centre
Catalogue ref: PA14/6/142
Collection: Papers and deeds of John Carter, Town Clerk and Clerk of the Peace for the City and County of the City of Coventry, and Edward Greenfield Doggett
Description: Draft petition, by magistrates to Home Secretary, justifying the cost of rebuilding the Gaol and merger with House of Correction. Also, statistics of prisoners held etc.
Dates: c.1824
Archive name: Coventry Archives and Research Centre
Catalogue ref: PA14/8/52
Collection: Papers and deeds of John Carter, Town Clerk and Clerk of the Peace for the City and County of the City of Coventry, and Edward Greenfield Doggett
Description: Signed draft of Magistrates' resolution about adjournment of a meeting to consider work upon the new Gaol
Dates: 1828
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 24/h/iii/600
Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Presentments to the Quarter Sessions upon the insufficiency of the County Gaol
Dates: 1848, 1853
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 24/h/iii/601
Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Annual returns, giving numbers of prisoners, their employment, average weekly cost of maintenance etc
Dates: 1843-1859
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 64/5/11
Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Special contract and other papers relating to the New Gaol and House of Correction
Dates: 1823-1831
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 91/4
Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Copy petition of Chairman of Warwickshire Quarter Sessions on behalf of the Warwickshire Magistracy against the clause in the Coventry Improvement and Cemetery Bill relating to the Gaol and House of Correction at Coventry
Dates: c.1844
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 63/70
Collection: Coventry Quarter Sessions
Description: Coventry Gaol, Visiting magistrates' book of orders, memoranda etc
Dates: 1842-1853
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 24/h/iii/597
Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Abstracts of accounts of the charges of the several tradesmen employed upon the Coventry new Gaol
Dates: c.1831
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 24/h/iii/602
Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Treasurer's annual statements of the disbursements at the Coventry Gaol
Dates: 1850-1860
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 63/58-59
Collection: Coventry Quarter Sessions
Description: Bundles of Treasurers Vouchers, new Gaol
Dates: 1828-1832
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 63/60
Collection: Coventry Quarter Sessions
Description: Case relating to payment of money advanced for erecting the New Gaol and House of Correction
Dates: 1832
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 64/5/6
Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions
Description: New Gaol account
Dates: 1825-1845
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 63/71-72
Collection: Coventry Quarter Sessions
Description: Coventry Gaol, Governors' journal
Dates: 1849-1853, 1856-1860
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 3/c/iv/17-19
Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Resignations and appointments of Chaplains of Coventry Gaol
Dates: 1849, 1850, 1858
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 3/c/i/10
Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Applications and advertisements for governorship of County Gaol, Warwick, House of Correction, Warwick and Coventry Gaol and House of Correction
Dates: 1826-1854
Archive name: Coventry Archives and Research Centre
Catalogue ref: BA/E/2/122/1
Collection: Coventry Borough Archives
Description: Extracts from report by Rate Committee to Coventry Corporation, suggesting that the City pay the Gaol staff less
Dates: 1837
Archive name: Coventry Archives and Research Centre
Catalogue ref: BA/E/2/103/1
Collection: Coventry Borough Archives
Description: Sheriffs' warrant for summons of jury to evaluate Cuckoo Lane property for Gaol's expansion
Dates: 1824
Archive name: Coventry Archives and Research Centre
Catalogue ref: BA/E/2/105/1
Collection: Coventry Borough Archives
Description: Case respecting Cuckoo Lane water works
Dates: 1827
Archive name: Coventry Archives and Research Centre
Catalogue ref: BA/E/2/106/1
Collection: Coventry Borough Archives
Description: Copy of counterpart lease for Swanswell Pool and Cuckoo Lane water works (1653)
Dates: c.1828
Archive name: Coventry Archives and Research Centre
Catalogue ref: BA/E/2/107/1
Collection: Coventry Borough Archives
Description: Notice about purchase of Cuckoo Lane water works from Coventry Corporation
Dates: 1828
Archive name: Coventry Archives and Research Centre
Catalogue ref: BA/E/2/108/1-3
Collection: Coventry Borough Archives
Description: Memoranda about Cuckoo Lane property
Dates: 1829
Archive name: Coventry Archives and Research Centre
Catalogue ref: BA/E/2/109/1
Collection: Coventry Borough Archives
Description: Justices' resolution about Gaol's boundary wall
Dates: 1829
Archive name: Coventry Archives and Research Centre
Catalogue ref: PA14/6/205
Collection: Papers and deeds of John Carter, Town Clerk and Clerk of the Peace for the City and County of the City of Coventry, and Edward Greenfield Doggett
Description: Letter from Carter to Steadman Whitwell wanting his plan for the new Gaol and House of Correction
Dates: 1822
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: CR2181/10
Collection: Architects Department, Warwickshire County Council
Description: Plans of remaining cell block of old Gaol, with alterations to convert it into a new Court
Dates: c.1900
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 24/h/iii/598
Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Contract with specification for carrying out alterations to the Court House and other buildings attached to the Coventry Gaol
Dates: 1843
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 24/h/iii/603
Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Plan of Coventry Gaol by William Kendall, County Surveyor
Dates: 1859
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 24/h/iii/604
Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Documents concerning sale of part of premises
Dates: 1865
Archive name: Coventry Archives and Research Centre
Catalogue ref: BA/E/2/104/1
Collection: Coventry Borough Archives
Description: List of Jurors who might value Cuckoo Lane property
Dates: 1824
