Fisherton Anger (Salisbury) County Gaol

Overview

Details

Records

Overview

Alternative Names   Wiltshire County Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol & House of Correction/Bridewell

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   1822

Date closed   1870

Location   junction of Devizes and Wilton roads   Fisherton Anger

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Wiltshire

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Wiltshire County Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   1822

Date closed   1870

Location   junction of Devizes and Wilton roads   Fisherton Anger

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   51.072678  Long.   -1.80586

County   Wiltshire

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1824

Annual Committed   -   278

Daily Census   -   60

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   233

Daily Census   -   38

 

Year 1833

Annual Committed   -   219

Daily Census   -   48

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   401

Daily Census   -   49

 

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   478

Daily Census   -   61

 

Year 1848

Annual Confined   -   608

Daily Daily average   -   78

 

Year 1853

Annual Confined   -   482

Daily Daily average   -   68

 

Year 1858

Annual Committed   -   386

Daily Daily average   -   71

 

Year 1863

Annual Committed   -   350

Daily Greatest number   -   72

 

Year 1868

Annual Committed   -   367

Daily Daily average   -   50

Principal Primary Sources

  • Fifth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1823), Appendix, p.115; Sixth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1824), Appendix, p.148; 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.155; 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.45
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1825, XXIII.1), p.290; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826, XXIV.1), p.278; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826-27, XIX.365), p.255; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1828, XX.327), p.290; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1829, XIX.1), p.259; Reports and Schedules Pursuant To Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830, XXIV.1), p.258; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830-31, XII.1), p.254; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1831-32. XXXIII.197), p.254; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.1), p.280; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1834, XLVI.1), p.267; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1835, XLIV.225), p.253; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1836, XLII.1), p.171; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837, XLV.1), p.173; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837-8, XLIII.227), p.174; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXXVIII.17), p.171; Reports Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.1), p.188; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1841, XVIII.1), p.200; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXXII.1), p.204; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1843, XLIII.1), p.203; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXXIX.403), p.196; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXXVII.417), p.233; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXXIV.187), p.241; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847, XLVII.297), p.245; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847-48, LII.465), p.250
  • Abstract Return of Establishment and Expenditure of Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.241), p.66
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837, XXXII.659), p.4; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXII.217), p.123; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXI.193), p.146; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXIX.391), p.450; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Eleventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXI.565), p.425; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Twelfth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXV.1), p.421; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Thirteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXVI.133), p.206; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Fourteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXVIII.1), p.84; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-third Report (Parl. Papers, 1857-58, XXIX.69), p.128; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1860, XXXV.153), p.72; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1862, XXV.5), p.85; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1864, XXVI.1), p.83; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirtieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1865, XXIII.1), p.242; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1866, XXXVII.1), p.217; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1867-68, XXXIV.203), p.297; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-third Report (Parl. Papers, 1868-69, XXIX.1), p.204; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1870, XXXVII.1), p.212

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol6/pp180-194

Management

Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/110

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Great rolls, including reports of county Officers, Surveyor, Governor of the County Gaol, Treasurer (from the early-to-mid 19th century)

Dates: 1603-1971


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: D1571/X48

Collection: Sotheron-Estcourt family of Shipton Moyne

Description: Draft reports (1824-1825), including abstracts of accounts of County Gaol at Fisherton Anger, Marlborough and Devizes Bridewells, and Salisbury Gaol (1823-1824).

Dates: 1823-1825


Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: 26M62/F/C782

Collection: Calthorpe of Elvetham

Description: Letter to Lord Calthorpe from H. Bricknall Estcourt, New Park, Devizes, answering queries about the County Gaol at Salisbury and the House of Correction at Devizes

Dates: 1823


Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: 44M69/G3/1087

Collection: Justices of the Peace, Wiltshire

Description: Printed resolutions of the Wiltshire Gaol and Bridewell Committee, concerning propriation of the new Prison at Devizes as House of Correction and Penitentiary, and the Prison at Fisherton Anger as Sheriff's Gaol and a small part of it as House of Correction

Dates: 1814


Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: COPY/745/39 (Misc fiche 327)

Collection: None

Description: Microfiche of Salisbury Gaol minute book 

Dates: 1819-1824


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: 451/218

Collection: Salisbury Diocesan Registry

Description: Wiltshire County Gaol, printed statement in favour of its continuation

Dates: 1867


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/505/2

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Gaol Committee minutes concerning the construction of a new Gaol at Fisherton Anger, and a new House of Correction and Penitentiary at Devizes

Dates: 1809-1817


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/505/3

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Gaol committee minutes concerning the construction of a new County Gaol at Fisherton Anger

Dates: 1817-1824


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/513/3

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Case papers relating to the closure of the Gaol at Fisherton Anger, and the rights of the Justices.

Dates: 1867


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/513/6

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: 5 copies of the Wiltshire County Mirror. Containing reports of the alteration and enlargement of the Devizes Prison, and the meeting of the Salisbury Town Council to discuss the closure of the Gaol at Fisherton Anger.

Dates: 1867-1875


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/513/7

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: 13 copies of the Salisbury and Winchester Journal. Containing letters and reports concerning the discontinuance and sale of the county gaol at Fisherton Anger, and the transfer of all prisoners to Devizes.

Dates: 1867-1875


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/860

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Letters patent, precepts and deeds concerning the succession to the shrievalty (1801, 1826-1827, 1829-1830), relating to (among other things) assignment of prisoners in the County Gaol

Dates: 1801-1830


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/512

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Draft general reports to the Secretary of State under George IV (1823). From the Justices, based on the reports of the Chaplains, Visiting Justices and Keepers at Devizes, Marlborough and Fisherton Anger

Dates: 1824-1857


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/507/1

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Copy report of the Visiting Justices, Chaplains, Magistrates and Surgeons concerning the number of prisoners, their health and condition and officers' salaries at Devizes, Marlborough and Fisherton Anger

Dates: 1824-1839


Finance

Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A3/705/6

Collection: Salisbury City Quarter Sessions

Description: Vouchers, bills and letters concerning Clerk's salary, prisoners' expenses in Gaol, Surgeons and Gaolers' accounts.

Dates: c.1800-c.1860


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: 451/217

Collection: Salisbury Diocesan Registry

Description: Notes and figures about the relative cost of putting Fisherton Anger and Devizes Gaols in order

Dates: 1861-1867


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/711

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Accounts for Fisherton Anger (1817-1818), note of expenses incurred in building new Gaol at Fisherton Anger (c.1818), and note of clerk's payments (1867). Also, vouchers (1785-1824) with gaps, returns with cost of maintaining prisoners (1857-78).

Dates: 1771-1878


Daily Business

Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/507/5

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Matron's journal and report book

Dates: 1849-1853


Staff

Archive name: Dorset History Centre

Catalogue ref: D/MAY/F10

Collection: Mayo family

Description: Newspaper cuttings relating to chaplaincy of County Gaol at Fisherton Anger

Dates: 1855-1862


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: 490/1416

Collection: Earl of Radnor

Description: 3 letters to Lord Radnor about the chaplaincy of Fisherton Anger Gaol, and the affairs of the late Mr Winch

Dates: 1828


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/516/6

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Statistics of crime compiled by the Governor of Fisherton Gaol, printed at Salisbury (1855). Presented to the Lord Lieutenant, High Sheriff and Magistrates of Wiltshire.

Dates: 1801-1850


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/514/3

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Rate of Officers' salaries at Devizes, Marlborough and Fisherton Anger.

Dates: 1843-1850


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/510/2

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Letters relating to the placing of advertisements for the vacancy of Gaol Chaplain to the County Gaol at Fisherton Anger, on the resignation of the Reverend W. Mayo. Also, lists of candidates for the post.

Dates: 1865


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/510/3

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Advertisements placed for the vacancy of Gaol Chaplain at Fisherton Anger. Also, lists of candidates for the post and letters of application.

Dates: 1866-1867


Prisoners

Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/507/3

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Returns to the Secretary of State on the numbers of prisoners at Devizes and Fisherton Anger. Notices appropriating the prisons to a particular class of prisoner, lists of prisoners, reports of the Gaol Committee, and related correspondence.

Dates: 1869-1877


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A3/190/9

Collection: Salisbury City Quarter Sessions

Description: Returns of prisoners awaiting trial, with details of crimes and sentences

Dates: 1817-1890


Land & Buildings

Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: 776/1151

Collection: Sheriffs of Wiltshire

Description: Bundle of deeds, including the site of the former County Gaol

Dates: 1797-1916


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: 9/34/54

Collection: Savernake Estate

Description: Includes copy of Architect's report and covering letter, suggesting that the County Gaol at Fisherton Anger be rebuilt on a new site, with an estimate for the cost of the proposed building (1817).

Dates: 1736-1817


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/506

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Gaol Committee correspondence, largely between members of the Committee and Architects concerning designs and plans for the alterations to the Devizes and Fisherton Gaols

Dates: 1817-1826


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/508/3

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Draft bargain and sale of land in Fisherton Anger for building a Gaol. Parties - Reverend R. H. Churchill and the Earl of Radnor.

Dates: 1808-1810


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/509/1

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Plans for the County Gaol at Fisherton Anger by Sir G. O. Paul.

Dates: 1808


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/509/15

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Contract for building a new County Gaol at Fisherton Anger, J. Peniston, Builder. Bond for performance, plans of the proposed works (coloured), with a sketch by Lord Radnor.

Dates: 1818-1824


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/509/2

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Plans for the County Gaol at Fisherton Anger by R. Ingleman of Southwell, Nottinghamshire.

Dates: 1817


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/509/3

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Plans for the County Gaol at Fisherton Anger by T. Hopper. Specification of sundry works in erecting the Prison.

Dates: 1817


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/509/8

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Five plans for the county gaol at Fisherton (architect unknown)

Dates: c1810-1820


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/513/5

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Papers relating to the sale of Fisherton Prison.

Dates: 1867-1875


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/513/8

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: The Builder (Journal) and The Building News and Engineering Journal. Containing notice of the sale of the Gaol at Fisherton Anger.

Dates: 1875


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/516/2

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Letters and papers concerning the use of a right of way behind Fisherton prison.

Dates: 1858-1866


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/587/12

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Fire insurance for buildings, including Old Bridewell, now Devizes Police Station, Prisons in Devizes and Fisherton in Salisbury, Old Bridewell in Marlborough

Dates: 1870


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/587/5-6, 13-14, 18

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: County Surveyors' reports on Prison in Fisherton in Salisbury

Dates: 1851-1876


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/740/19

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Correspondence about the land tax and tithes due on the old County Gaol at Fisherton Anger. With copy of a large-scale map of the area.

Dates: 1877, 1879


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: G23/150/137

Collection: Salisbury City Council

Description: Deeds - Fisherton Police station, formerly County Gaol 

Dates: 1867-1930


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: G23/152/1

Collection: Salisbury City Council

Description: Contracts for building the new County Gaol and House of Correction, Fisherton Anger, with plans, elevations and specifications

Dates: 1818-1875


Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: A1/513/4

Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Correspondence between the Clerk of the Peace and Messrs Abbewood, Gwillim, Hearne, Hill, Leach and Weaver concerning the disposal of fixtures at Fisherton Anger

Dates: 1867-1875


Other

Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: 451/589

Collection: Salisbury Diocesan Registry

Description: Supplement to the Salisbury and Winchester Journal, and cuttings, relating to the Quarter Sessions and County Gaols

Dates: 1866-1867