Alternative Names Horsham County Gaol and Bridewell, Sussex County Gaol
Prison Type Local Prison - Common Gaol
Jurisdiction County
Date opened 1779
Date closed 1845
Location Causey Croft, East Street (north side) Horsham
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Sussex
From 1830, used only for debtors and those awaiting trial.
Alternative Names Horsham County Gaol and Bridewell, Sussex County Gaol
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction County
Date opened 1779
Date closed 1845
Location Causey Croft, East Street (north side) Horsham
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 51.0614922 Long. -0.3263674
County Sussex
From 1830, used only for debtors and those awaiting trial.
Year 1818
Annual Committed - 77
Daily Greatest number - 120
Year 1823
Annual Committed - 117
Daily Census - 90
Year 1828
Annual Committed - 106
Daily Census - 47
Year 1833
Annual Committed - 223
Daily Census - 45
Year 1838
Annual Confined - 112
Daily Census - 24
Year 1843
Annual Confined - 100
Daily Census - 11
Archive name: West Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: QAA/1/WE3
Collection: Sussex Quarter Sessions (Western Division)
Description: Agendas, minutes and papers dealing with matters of common interest. The minutes and papers mainly concern Horsham Gaol, the alterations to be made after a prisoner's escape (diagram), appointment of Chaplain, conveying of prisoners to Gaol, and the appointment of the javelin men.
Dates: 1823-1824, 1835-1836
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: QAA/1/3
Collection: Sussex Quarter Sessions
Description: Joint General Adjourned Sessions minutes and papers. The bulk of the papers concern Horsham Gaol, and a Committee's reports and papers thereon (especially 1835-1837)
Dates: 1824-1837
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: SHR 171-179
Collection: Papers of George Shiffner
Description: Includes Committee for discontinuing Horsham Gaol.
Dates: 1835
Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre
Catalogue ref: U1776/O6
Collection: Additional Hussey manuscripts
Description: Justice of the Peace - mainly printed notices. Includes rules of Horsham Gaol, Sussex (1844), report of Committee of Hastings Prison (1843).
Dates: 1843-1844
Archive name: West Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: GOODWOOD Mss 1477b
Collection: Goodwood Estate Archives
Description: Letters and papers relating to Horsham and Petworth Gaols
Dates: 1832
Archive name: West Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: PHA 10585
Collection: Petworth House Archives
Description: Orders of Quarter Sessions concerning the running of Horsham Gaol
Dates: 1832
Archive name: West Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: PHA 106
Collection: Petworth House Archives
Description: Printed report on prisoners in Horsham Gaol, papers relating to prisons at Horsham and Petworth
Dates: 1813-1835
Archive name: West Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: PHA 10732
Collection: Petworth House Archives
Description: Includes subscription for prisoners in Horsham Gaol.
Dates: 1821-1822
Archive name: West Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: QAL/2/W5
Collection: Sussex Quarter Sessions (Western Division)
Description: Committee papers to provide for pauper lunatics. They include a proposal to convert Horsham Gaol into an Asylum (1845)
Dates: 1845-1854
Archive name: West Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: QAP/4/WE10
Collection: Sussex Quarter Sessions (Western Division)
Description: Horsham Common Gaol - draft general report
Dates: 1828-1845
Archive name: West Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: QAP/4/WE8
Collection: Sussex Quarter Sessions (Western Division)
Description: Horsham Gaol. Reports and returns under 'schedule B' of 1823 Gaol Act
Dates: 1823-1844
Archive name: West Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: QR/W628-W1035
Collection: Sussex Quarter Sessions (Western Division)
Description: Sessions Rolls. Includes documents relating to the administration of Horsham Gaol and Petworth House of Correction (eg. bills, returns of prisoners etc)
Dates: 1800-1900
Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre
Catalogue ref: A1/516/4
Collection: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Printed papers concerning Gaol administration in other counties, including rules for Horsham, Lewes, and Petworth (1824). Hints for the improvement of prisons (1817).
Dates: 1807-1824
Archive name: West Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: QAP/4/WE11
Collection: Sussex Quarter Sessions (Western Division)
Description: Horsham Gaol. Reports of Visiting Justices, Chaplain, Surgeon and Keeper
Dates: 1833-1846
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: ACC 11466/4/51
Collection: None
Description: Expenses of Charles Cooper, Keeper of His Majesty's Gaol at Horsham, for poor prisoners
Dates: c.1810
Archive name: West Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: QCV/2/W50
Collection: Sussex Quarter Sessions (Western Division)
Description: Letter concerning annuity to late Keeper of Horsham Gaol, and allowances to Turnkeys
Dates: 1807
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: SPK 1/98
Collection: Baker Holroyd Family
Description: Letters from the Reverend Robert Bingham, Horsham (Gaol)
Dates: 1811
Archive name: West Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: QAP/4/WE9
Collection: Sussex Quarter Sessions (Western Division)
Description: Horsham Gaol. Statement of Increase or Diminution of Officers and Servants.
Dates: 1842-1844
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: AOB 7/2/2
Collection: None
Description: Indenture. William Borrer Esquire, late Sheriff of the County of Sussex, to Sir William Ashburnham, present Sheriff of the said County, list of prisoners in custody in HM Gaol
Dates: 1802
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: AOB 7/3/5
Collection: None
Description: List of convicts under sentence of transportation in the Gaol at Horsham
Dates: 1802
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: ACC 10182/7/1
Collection: None
Description: Sussexiana Brightoniana - bound pamphlets. 'A True Account of the Life and Death of Swing, the Rick-Burner...together with the Confession of Thomas Goodman, now under sentence of death in Horsham Jail for Rick-Burning'.
Dates: 1830s
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: SAS/DM 345-352
Collection: None
Description: Orders for pardons, remissions of sentence, commutations of death sentence etc. Relating to Horsham and Lewes Gaols.
Dates: 1821-1840
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: QDP/161/2
Collection: Sussex Quarter Sessions
Description: Proposed rail route. Sheet 17 gives clear details of Horsham main town and environs, including Chedworth, Pork Barn and Horsham Gaol.
Dates: 1837
Archive name: East Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: SPK 1/24/58
Collection: Baker Holroyd Family
Description: Letter regarding alterations at Horsham (Gaol)
Dates: 1819
Archive name: West Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: QAP/4/2/WE1-6
Collection: Sussex Quarter Sessions (Western Division)
Description: Plans and specifications of Horsham Gaol
Dates: 1819-1843
Archive name: West Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: QAP/4/WE7
Collection: Sussex Quarter Sessions (Western Division)
Description: Draft conveyance of Horsham Gaol
Dates: 1846
Archive name: West Sussex Record Office
Catalogue ref: QCV/2/W52
Collection: Sussex Quarter Sessions (Western Division)
Description: Letter from Sheriff concerning repair of Horsham Gaol
Dates: 1809
