Gloucestershire County Gaol and Penitentiary

Overview

Details

Records

Overview

Alternative Names   Gloucester County Gaol, Gloucester Prison, HMP Gloucester

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

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   1791

Date closed   post 1900 (2013)

Location   Barrack Square   Gloucester

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Gloucestershire

Critical Remarks

The Gaol and Penitentiary are listed separately in 1818 Return, despite being the same institution. I have merged the statistics to keep them as one institution.

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Gloucester County Gaol, Gloucester Prison, HMP Gloucester

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   1791

Date closed   post 1900 (2013)

Location   Barrack Square   Gloucester

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   51.8652  Long.   -2.2517

County   Gloucestershire

Critical Remarks

The Gaol and Penitentiary are listed separately in 1818 Return, despite being the same institution. I have merged the statistics to keep them as one institution.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   720

Daily Greatest number   -   350

 

Year 1823

Annual Committed   -   431

Daily Census   -   65

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   564

Daily Census   -   81

 

Year 1833

Annual Committed   -   736

Daily Census   -   108

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   908

Daily Census   -   162

 

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   1091

Daily Census   -   207

 

Year 1848

Annual Confined   -   915

Daily Daily average   -   193

 

Year 1853

Annual Confined   -   825

Daily Daily average   -   204

 

Year 1858

Annual Committed   -   953

Daily Daily average   -   197

 

Year 1863

Annual Committed   -   1726

Daily Greatest number   -   311

 

Year 1868

Annual Committed   -   1731

Daily Daily average   -   208

 

Year 1873

Annual Committed   -   1721

Daily Daily average   -   184

 

Year 1878

Annual Committed   -   1788

Daily Daily average   -   221

 

Year 1883

Annual Committed   -   1479

Daily Daily average   -   136

 

Year 1888

Annual Committed   -   1285

Daily Daily average   -   116

 

Year 1893

Annual Committed   -   977

Daily   -  

 

Year 1898

Annual Committed   -   1036

Daily   -  

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.244
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.14
  • [Second] Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1820), p.43; The Third Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1821), Appendix, p.21; Fourth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1822), Appendix, p.16; 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.24; 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.34; 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.41; 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.13
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1824, XIX.359), p.104; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1825, XXIII.1), p.98; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826, XXIV.1), p.94; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826-27, XIX.365), p.88; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1828, XX.327), p.97; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1829, XIX.1), p.89; Reports and Schedules Pursuant To Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830, XXIV.1), p.84; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830-31, XII.1), p.83; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1831-32. XXXIII.197), p.86; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.1), p.90; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1834, XLVI.1), p.84; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1835, XLIV.225), p.88; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1836, XLII.1), p.54; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837, XLV.1), p.58; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837-8, XLIII.227), p.56; Reports Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.1), p.55; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1841, XVIII.1), p.57; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXXII.1), p.56; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1843, XLIII.1), p.64; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXXIX.403), p.58; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXXVII.417), p.68; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXXIV.187), p.66; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847, XLVII.297), p.71; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847-48, LII.465), p.69
  • Abstract Return of Establishment and Expenditure of Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.241), p.16
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District. First Report (Parl. Papers, 1836, XXXV.269), p.8; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXII.217), p.65; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXI.193), p.108; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXIX.391), p.163; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Tenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXIV.207), p.156; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Eleventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXI.565), p.135; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Twelfth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXV.1), p.147; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Thirteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXVI.133), p.106; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Fifteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXVIII.579), p.76; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Eighteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1852-53, LII.113), p.65; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Twenty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1856, XXXIII.485), p.9; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-third Report (Parl. Papers, 1857-58, XXIX.69), p.33; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1860, XXXV.153), p.23; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1861, XXIX.1), p.20; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1863, XXIII.1), p.33; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirtieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1865, XXIII.1), p.96; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1866, XXXVII.1), p.84; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1867-68, XXXIV.203), p.112; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-third Report (Parl. Papers, 1868-69, XXIX.1), p.75; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1870, XXXVII.1), p.79; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1871, XXIX.241), p.94; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1872, XXXI.1), p.57; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1873, XXXII.1), p.109; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1874, XXIX.1), p.126; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1875, XXXVII.1), p.136; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Fortieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1876, XXXV.1), p.136; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Forty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1877, XLIII.1), p.139; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Forty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1878, XLI.1), p.138
  • Commissioners of Prisons, Second Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1878-79, XXXIV.1, 97), p.26; Commissioners of Prisons, Third Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1880, XXXV.1,73), p.33; Commissioners of Prisons, Fourth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1881, LI.441, 521), p.35; Commissioners of Prisons, Fifth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1882, XXXIII.443, 541), p.40; Commissioners of Prisons, Sixth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1883, XXXI.445, 579), p.44; Commissioners of Prisons, Seventh Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1884, XLII.461, 551), p.40; Commissioners of Prisons, Eighth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1884-85, XXXVII.527, 651), p.40; Commissioners of Prisons, Ninth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1886, XXXV.1, 93), p.36; Commissioners of Prisons, Tenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1887, XLI.203, 335), p.33; Commissioners of Prisons, Eleventh Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1888, LVIII.1, 209), p.33; Commissioners of Prisons, Twelfth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1889, XLI.1, 181), p.33; Commissioners of Prisons, Thirteenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1890, XXXVII.1, 183), p.33; Commissioners of Prisons, Fourteenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1890-91, XLIII.1, 125), p.32; Commissioners of Prisons, Fifteenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1892, XLII.1, 147), p.31; Commissioners of Prisons, Sixteenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1893-94, XLVII.1, 121), p.32; Commissioners of Prisons, Seventeenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1894, XLIV.1, 183), p.31; Commissioners of Prisons, Eighteenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1895, LVI.727, 865), p.31
  • Report of Coms. of Prisons and Directors of Convict Prisons, 1895-96 (Parl. Papers, 1896, XLIV.235), p.81; Report of Coms. of Prisons and Directors of Convict Prisons, 1896-97 (Parl. Papers, 1897, XL.105), p.221; Report of Coms. of Prisons and Directors of Convict Prisons, 1897-98 (Parl. Papers, 1898, XLVII.23), p.244; Report of Coms. of Prisons and Directors of Convict Prisons, 1898-99 (Parl. Papers, 1899, XLIII.65), p.241; Report of Coms. of Prisons and Directors of Convict Prisons, 1899-1900 (Parl. Papers, 1900, XLI.1), p.277

Additional Primary Sources

  • Sir George Onesiphorus Paul, A state of proceedings on the subject of a reform of prisons within the county of Gloucester (Gloucester, 1783)

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/archives/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=58233&p=0; http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol4/pp245-247; Elizabeth Jack. A Rogues' Gallery: Victorian prisoners of Gloucester Gaol (Stroud, 2009)

Management

Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/AG/24

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Governor's report on profits of trades in Gloucester Gaol (1867-1868).

Dates: 1867-1868


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/AG/20

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Answers to Queries from Quarter Sessions as to schedule for hard labour, by Governor and Keepers of Prisons

Dates: 1842


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/CL/1/1-9

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Cases for opinion, depositions, correspondence and papers relating to Gaolers' fees (1818). Nuisances near County Gaol, including correspondence from the Surveyor, Fulljames (1829-1838)

Dates: 1818-1849


Archive name: Devon Heritage Centre

Catalogue ref: 152M/C/1812/OH68-69

Collection: Addington Family, Viscounts Sidmouth

Description: Gloucester Prison. Opening of prisoners letter without reasonable cause. Need of access for legal advisors to the prisoners

Dates: 1812


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: D13150

Collection: Bryan White of Gloucester

Description: Former Prison Officer. Miscellaneous material relating to Gloucester Prison, some from the late 19th century, such as photographs of the interior c.1900

Dates: Late 19th century-1990s


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: D15/12

Collection: None

Description: Sir Russell Kerr. Comprises correspondence relating to claim for compensation for surplus cell accommodation in Gloucester Gaol (under the Prisons Act 1877)

Dates: 1878-1921


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: GBR/L/6/7/3

Collection: Gloucester Borough

Description: Contracts and agreements. Contract for reception of City convicted prisoners in County Gaol

Dates: 1846


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/AG/11-12

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Copy orders of Quarter Sessions respecting the new Gaol, Penitentiary House and Houses of Correction

Dates: 1789-1823


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/AG/35a

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Contract for reception of City prisoners in the County Prison

Dates: 1858


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/CR/27/1-47

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Prisoners - cost of maintenance. Gloucester County Gaol.

Dates: 1847-1878


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/FC/3

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Auditors' reports. From 1865 they include statistical reports on the County Gaol.

Dates: None


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gc/11

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Journal for separate Prison Department

Dates: 1871-1879


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gc/20/1

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Extracts from Quarter Sessions orders relating to Gloucester Gaol (1844-1878)

Dates: 1844-1878


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gc/38/1-4

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Proceedings (ie. minutes). Specific cases for relief.

Dates: 1792-1925


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/AG/32

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Printed return to Home Office under Prisoners Act about claim for compensation for surplus cell accommodation (1878)

Dates: 1878


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/SO/12-21

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Order books. Contain material on the administration of the county prisons. The catalogue describes contents of some books in substantial detail.

Dates: 1799-1868


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/AG/19

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Reports of Governor of County Gaol and Keepers of the Houses of Correction to Quarter Sessions. Also, draft reports from Chairman of Quarter Sessions to the Secretary of State. With some reports of Visiting Justices

Dates: 1825-1887


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: D149/X37

Collection: Clifford Family of Frampton-on-Severn

Description: Official - H. C. Clifford, JP. Notice of meeting of Visiting Justices to the County Gaol

Dates: 1853


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gc/1/1-14

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Visiting Justices' journal (later called minutes)

Dates: 1791-1957


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gc/2/1-2

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Visiting Justices' order books

Dates: 1859-1873


Daily Business

Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gc/31/1-6

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Chaplain's journals

Dates: 1806-1872


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gc/28

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Deputy Governor's minute book

Dates: 1844-1845


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gc/3/1-14

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Governor's journals

Dates: 1795-1976


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gc/32/1-4

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Surgeon and Medical Officer's journals

Dates: 1791-1820


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gc/16

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Record of prisoners' petitions to Secretary of State

Dates: 1894-1940


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gc/4

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Letter book containing copies of outgoing letters

Dates: 1867-1874


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gc/37

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Subscription register

Dates: 1792-1826


Staff

Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/AG/30/1-16, 18-24

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Applications for posts at the County Gaol Gloucester (governor, deputy governor, chaplain, miller, turnkey, principal warder, under warder, outdoor porter, female searcher, under matron, schoolmaster, laundry officer)

Dates: 1836-1874


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: D9125/1/1741

Collection: None

Description: Application and testimonials of Hugh Coffin Vaughan for the office of Governor of Gloucester County Prison

Dates: 1874


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/AG/30/17

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Advertisements for posts at the County Gaol Gloucester (Underwardress, schoolmistress cum hospital attendant and underwarder)

Dates: 1868


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gc/21/2

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Prison Officers' monthly salaries books

Dates: 1858-1878


Prisoners

Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gc/12/1-30

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Nominal prisoners' registers

Dates: 1879-1951


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gc/5/1-7

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Registers of prisoners for trial at Quarter Sessions and Assizes

Dates: 1815-1844


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gc/6/1-7

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Registers of prisoners for trial at Quarter Sessions and Assizes

Dates: 1844-1879


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gc/7/1

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Penitentiary register of prisoners

Dates: 1841-1844


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gc/7/2

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Register of prisoners tried at Quarter Sessions

Dates: 1817-1831


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gc/8/1-2

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Debtors' registers

Dates: 1838-1879


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gc/9/1-9

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Registers of summary convictions

Dates: 1853-1879


Archive name: Bristol Archives

Catalogue ref: 40316

Collection: Smyth Family records

Description: Personal account of a trial written by a prisoner whilst in Gloucester Gaol -'The Victim of Fatality, or the Claimant of Ashton Court, A Romantic Tale of the Nineteenth Century...'

Dates: c.1857


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: D771/A/26-30

Collection: Gloucestershire County Shrievalty

Description: Papers relating to the execution of murderers at Gloucester Gaol

Dates: 1873-1919


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/CR/10/1

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Account of number of prisoners imprisoned for Game Law offences

Dates: 1816-1817


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gc/10/1

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Duplicate returns of habitual criminals

Dates: 1870


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gc/10/2, 4

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Albums of prisoners' photographs

Dates: 1882-1915


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gc/13/1

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Record of previous conviction book

Dates: c.1880-c.1906


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gc/15/1

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Prisoners reception book

Dates: 1886-1891


Archive name: Surrey History Centre

Catalogue ref: 2271/15/1

Collection: None

Description: Health certificate for Maurice Dight, issued by the Medical Officer, Gloucester County Gaol (14 August 1849)

Dates: 1849


Land & Buildings

Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gc/21/1

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Weekly wages book for labour in erecting the chapel and Governor's house, and other works

Dates: 1847-1850


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: C/AA/B32-33

Collection: Gloucestershire County Council

Description: Includes details of old Police station, County rifle armoury, militia barracks, drill ground and gas works

Dates: 1888


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: C/DC/F/7

Collection: Gloucestershire County Council

Description: Gloucester - Barbican gardens, land near County Gaol, with plan of County Gaol and surrounding holdings

Dates: 1816-1906


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: C/DC/SJ/2

Collection: Gloucestershire County Council

Description: Gloucester - central Police Station, Bearland. Lands adjoining County Gaol (1816). Messuage and land in Bearland (from 1834).

Dates: 1816-1858


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: D2593/2/51

Collection: Fulljames and Waller of Gloucester, Architects

Description: Erection of separate new Prison (Gloucester County Gaol)

Dates: 1842-1846


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: D2593/2/69

Collection: Fulljames and Waller of Gloucester, Architects

Description: Gloucester - enlargement of chapel in County Gaol

Dates: 1846-1848


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: D2593/2/7

Collection: Fulljames and Waller of Gloucester, Architects

Description: Gloucester, County Gaol (Classical)

Dates: 1831-1837


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/AG/1

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: County Gaol, Gloucester: plans

Dates: 1785-1879


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/AG/35b

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Papers relating to County Prison, Barrack Square and Quay Wall (Gloucester Corporation Act 1874)

Dates: 1874-1882


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/AG/9

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Contracts and draft contracts for alterations and repairs at Gloucester Gaol

Dates: 1826-1863


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/RUm/102

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: River Severn horse towing path. Plan and book of reference, Trophimus Fulljames, Surveyor. Includes County Gaol, Gloucester

Dates: 1810-1811


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/RUm/132/1

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Birmingham and Gloucester railway. Plan, book of reference and section. Captain W. S. Moorsom, Engineer. Includes County Gaol, Gloucester.

Dates: c.1835


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/RUm/133

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Cheltenham to Swindon railway, with branches. Plan and section. Includes County Gaol

Dates: c.1835


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/RUm/136/2

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Gloucester water works. Plan of the City of Gloucester showing the line of the pipes and the streets to be supplied with water. Includes County Gaol

Dates: c.1835-c.1836


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/RUm/396

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Gloucester Borough extension and improvements. Plan and section (volume, printed), book of reference. Thomas Small, Engineer. Includes County Gaol

Dates: 1873


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/AG/33

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Copy rentals of gardens belonging to the County Gaol

Dates: 1803-1813


Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: PCOM7/122

Collection: Prison Commission

Description: Land. Gloucester Prison: conveyance of strip of land to [?]

Dates: 1894


Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: PCOM7/123

Collection: Prison Commission

Description: Land. Gloucester Prison: conveyance of strip of land to Gloucester Corporation

Dates: 1895-1899


Images

Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: 88M96W/K1

Collection: None

Description: Photocopies of photographs of prison scenes

Dates: c.1900


Other

Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: 44M69/F14/1/11

Collection: None

Description: Letters to Thomas Hall junior from his daughter Elizabeth (Eliza) Hall / Jervoise. Item 16 describes a visit to Gloucester Cathedral and Gaol

Dates: 1801-1808