Horsley House of Correction

Overview

Details

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Overview

Prison Type   Local Prison -  House of Correction/Bridewell

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   1791

Date closed   1867 [1878]

Location   Priory Fields   Horsley

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Gloucestershire

Critical Remarks

Prison demolished in 1878, but had been used only as a remand centre from c1867.

Prison Info

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   1791

Date closed   1867 [1878]

Location   Priory Fields   Horsley

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   51.6800995  Long.   -2.235393

County   Gloucestershire

Critical Remarks

Prison demolished in 1878, but had been used only as a remand centre from c1867.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   266

Daily Greatest number   -   36

 

Year 1823

Annual Committed   -   378

Daily Census   -   31

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   341

Daily Census   -   43

 

Year 1833

Annual Committed   -   295

Daily Census   -   47

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   498

Daily Census   -   33

 

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   362

Daily Census   -   35

 

Year 1848

Annual Confined   -   405

Daily Daily average   -   33

 

Year 1853

Annual Confined   -   273

Daily Daily average   -   28

 

Year 1858

Annual Committed   -   222

Daily Daily average   -   27

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.275
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.16
  • 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.21; 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.37; 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.44; 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.14
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1824, XIX.359), p.112; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1825, XXIII.1), p.106; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826, XXIV.1), p.96; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826-27, XIX.365), p.90; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1828, XX.327), p.99; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1829, XIX.1), p.92; Reports and Schedules Pursuant To Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830, XXIV.1), p.87; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830-31, XII.1), p.86; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1831-32. XXXIII.197), p.89; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.1), p.99; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1834, XLVI.1), p.92; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1835, XLIV.225), p.95; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1836, XLII.1), p.59; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837, XLV.1), p.63; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837-8, XLIII.227), p.62; Reports Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.1), p.60; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1841, XVIII.1), p.62; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXXII.1), p.61; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1843, XLIII.1), p.68; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXXIX.403), p.62; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXXVII.417), p.72; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXXIV.187), p.67; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847, XLVII.297), p.76; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847-48, LII.465), p.74
  • 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, Third Report (Parl. Papers, 1837-38, XXXI.177), p.41; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1841 Session 2, V.177), p.118; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXIX.391), p.177; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Tenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXIV.207), p.166; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Eleventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXI.565), p.152; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Twelfth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXV.1), p.164; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Thirteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXVI.133), p.120; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Fifteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXVIII.579), p.134; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Eighteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1852-53, LII.113), p.86; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Twentieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1854-55, XXVI.1), p.89; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Twenty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1857, Session 1, VII.401), p.73; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1859, Session 1, XI.169), p.26

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol11/pp175-177; R. Close, 'The History of Horsley Prison', Minchinhampton Local History Group, Annual Bulletin No. 4 (1986-7), pp. 2-5 (http://community.stroud.gov.uk/_documents/27/27_Bull4.pdf)

Management

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/CR/27/48-128

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Houses of Correction. Original half-yearly returns (with a few drafts and copies) from Keepers to Clerk of the Peace

Dates: 1847-1860


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/Gh/3

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Order book of Quarter Sessions

Dates: 1844-1869


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: D471/X8

Collection: Kingscote family papers

Description: Memorandum 'Observations relative to the conduct of the two visiting Magistrates', at Horsley Bridewell (1822). Report on clothing and bedding at Horsley Gaol, (1823).

Dates: 1822-1823


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gh/1/1

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Visiting Justices' journal

Dates: 1792-1823


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gh/1/2-3

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Visiting Justices' minute and order books

Dates: 1844-1878


Finance

Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gh/5

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Cash account of grain sold

Dates: 1822-1847


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gh/6/1-2

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Quarterly accounts

Dates: 1844-1878


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gh/7/1-2

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Provisions accounts

Dates: 1844-1878


Daily Business

Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gh/11

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Chaplain's journal

Dates: 1852-1858


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

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

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Horsley House of Correction, Governor's journals

Dates: 1809-1843


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gh/2/3

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Keeper's order book

Dates: 1844-1860


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gh/12

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Surgeon's journal

Dates: 1843-1844


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gh/4

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Letter book

Dates: 1844-1859


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

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

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Diet books

Dates: 1828-1878


Staff

Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/AG/30/2, 25-31

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Applications for posts at Horsley House of Correction (chaplain, governor, wardsman, schoolmistress, turnkey, under warder)

Dates: 1844-1850


Archive name: Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies

Catalogue ref: Q/AG/14/221a

Collection: Buckinghamshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Includes letters to Deputy CP, Gloucestershire - please release Linton to take up his new post as Governor of Horsley Prison (18 February 1848).

Dates: 1848


Archive name: Nottinghamshire Archives

Catalogue ref: C/QAG/2/60-85

Collection: Nottinghamshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Letters, adverts and applications re appointment of Governor. Includes information re Horsley House of Correction, Gloucester (14 October 1853).

Dates: 1853


Prisoners

Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gh/10/1-5

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Registers of prisoners

Dates: 1825-1860


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/Gh/9

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Prisoners' property books (female)

Dates: 1844-1859


Land & Buildings

Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: C/DC/H/51

Collection: Gloucestershire County Council

Description: Horsley Priory buildings of former Horsley House of Correction

Dates: 1878


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: D2593/2/60

Collection: Fulljames and Waller of Gloucester, Architects

Description: Horsley, alterations to Gaol

Dates: 1844-1846


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: Q/AG/10

Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions

Description: Papers relating to sale of Horsley House of Correction

Dates: 1878