Daventry Borough Gaol

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Overview

Alternative Names   Daventry Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol, Lock Up

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1828

Date closed   [1837]

Location   Site of the old priory, next to Holy Cross Church, Market Square, Church Walk   Daventry

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Northamptonshire

Critical Remarks

By 1837, according to the prison inspectors, the gaol had become a lock up only. It last appears in the official prison statistics in 1837. Probably still in use as late as 1874, as Whellan describes it as a 'Gaol Lock Up'.

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Daventry Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1828

Date closed   [1837]

Location   Site of the old priory, next to Holy Cross Church, Market Square, Church Walk   Daventry

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   52.2585217  Long.   -1.159533

County   Northamptonshire

Critical Remarks

By 1837, according to the prison inspectors, the gaol had become a lock up only. It last appears in the official prison statistics in 1837. Probably still in use as late as 1874, as Whellan describes it as a 'Gaol Lock Up'.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   0

Daily Census   -   0

 

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   8

Daily Greatest number   -   2

Principal Primary Sources

  • 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.33
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (1829, XIX.401), p.84
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.33
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 3 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIV.1), p.1844
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Third Report (Parl. Papers, 1837-38, XXXI.177), p.82

Additional Primary Sources

  • Pigot, Pigot’s Directory of Northamptonshire (1841), p. 4; Francis Whellan, History, Topography and Directory of Northamptonshire (1874)