Alternative Names Dover Common Gaol and House of Correction, Dover Borough Gaol, Dover Town Gaol
Prison Type Local Prison - Common Gaol & House of Correction/Bridewell
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened 1835
Date closed 1878
Location town hall, at the entrance to Dover on the London road, formerly the hospital of a priory called the Maison Dieu Dover
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Kent
Alternative Names Dover Common Gaol and House of Correction, Dover Borough Gaol, Dover Town Gaol
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened 1835
Date closed 1878
Location town hall, at the entrance to Dover on the London road, formerly the hospital of a priory called the Maison Dieu Dover
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 51.128 Long. 1.3089
County Kent
Year 1838
Annual Confined - 204
Daily Census - 32
Year 1843
Annual Confined - 388
Daily Census - 27
Year 1848
Annual Confined - 357
Daily Daily average - 37
Year 1853
Annual Confined - 398
Daily Daily average - 40
Year 1858
Annual Committed - 450
Daily Daily average - 40
Year 1863
Annual Committed - 448
Daily Greatest number - 71
Year 1868
Annual Committed - 175
Daily Daily average - 6
Year 1873
Annual Committed - 297
Daily Daily average - 40
Year 1878
Annual Committed - 19
Daily Daily average - 0
Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre
Catalogue ref: Do/Amc15/1
Collection: Dover Borough
Description: Miscellaneous Committee minutes, including Committee to consider Gaoler's salary (1859), Reformatory school for borough offenders (1861), Gaol Committee (1864), Prison Visitors' Committee (1869), General Purposes Committee (appointed in 1870 to exercise powers under the Municipal Corporation, Prison).
Dates: 1848-1872
Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre
Catalogue ref: Do/ACr3
Collection: Dover Borough
Description: Copies of quarterly Gaol and Sessions orders (authorised by Gaol Committee and confirmed by Council)
Dates: 1840-1847
Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre
Catalogue ref: Do/ACr9/2
Collection: Dover Borough
Description: Copies of Gaol and Sessions orders. Including orders to pay unpaid bills to tradesmen for supplies to the new Gaol (1836)
Dates: 1836-1843
Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre
Catalogue ref: Do/JQc19
Collection: Dover Borough
Description: Miscellaneous correspondence, including disposal of prisoners during alterations to Gaol, goods of convicted felons.
Dates: 1867-1869
Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre
Catalogue ref: Do/JQp4
Collection: Dover Borough
Description: Poor Law matters. Vagrancy problem at Margate. Suggests vagrants be committed to Sandwich Gaol instead of Dover.
Dates: 1844
Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre
Catalogue ref: EK/U1453/O46/79
Collection: Cobb Family of Margate
Description: Letters regarding supply of matting for Dover Gaol
Dates: 1850
Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre
Catalogue ref: Do/TL145
Collection: Dover Borough
Description: Mortgages of borough rates (security for sums lent for repairing Court House and Prison)
Dates: 1860
Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre
Catalogue ref: Do/JSf3
Collection: Dover Borough
Description: Rough accounts of Sessions fees (1833). List of unpaid bills due to tradesmen for work on new Gaol.
Dates: 1827-1836
Archive name: Canterbury Cathedral Archives
Catalogue ref: DCb/F/F/Do/15
Collection: Diocese of Canterbury
Description: Licences for chaplains - Dover, The Borough Gaol
Dates: 1857
Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre
Catalogue ref: U442/O33
Collection: Gordon Ward Collection
Description: Copy of duties of Chaplain at Dover Gaol
Dates: 1836
Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre
Catalogue ref: Do/Ao5
Collection: Dover Borough
Description: Appointment of John George Coulthard as Deputy Water Bailiff and Keeper of the Prison
Dates: 1855
Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre
Catalogue ref: Do/Ap5
Collection: Dover Borough
Description: Memorials of John George Coulthard, town gaoler, and assistants, for increased salary
Dates: 1851-1860
Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre
Catalogue ref: Do/TA15
Collection: Dover Borough
Description: Agreement with Hannah Simmons, Matron of Dover Prison, regarding pension payable to her following the closure of the Prison under the terms of the Prison Act (1877)
Dates: 1883
Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre
Catalogue ref: Do/JQg2-3, 5-9, 11
Collection: Dover Borough
Description: Lists and descriptions of convicts and/ or prisoners in gaol
Dates: 1836-1871
Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre
Catalogue ref: Do/JQg10
Collection: Dover Borough
Description: Correspondence regarding individual prisoners
Dates: 1857-1859
Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre
Catalogue ref: Do/JQg4
Collection: Dover Borough
Description: Correspondence of HM Treasury and others with clerk of the peace regarding restitution of stolen jewellery found in possession of convicted felon
Dates: 1851
Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre
Catalogue ref: Do/TA26
Collection: Dover Borough
Description: Contract and specification to construct public baths, boiler house and laundry, lay out the old Prison yard
Dates: 1894
Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre
Catalogue ref: EK/U150
Collection: Maison Dieu, Dover: Plans
Description: Plans of the Maison Dieu, Dover. Most are annotated with the name and address of the Architect W. Burges, 15 Buckingham Street, London.
Dates: 1859-1881
