Prison Type Local Prison - Common Gaol
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened 1820
Date closed 1878
Location Rope Walk Ipswich
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Suffolk
The primary sources all agree that the borough purchased the old County House of Correction (ID 288) in 1820 and converted the premises into the new Borough Gaol.
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened 1820
Date closed 1878
Location Rope Walk Ipswich
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 52.055594 Long. 1.160958
County Suffolk
The primary sources all agree that the borough purchased the old County House of Correction (ID 288) in 1820 and converted the premises into the new Borough Gaol.
Year 1832
Annual Committed - 97
Daily Greatest number - 41
Year 1838
Annual Confined - 157
Daily Census - 38
Year 1843
Annual Confined - 230
Daily Census - 29
Year 1848
Annual Confined - 214
Daily Daily average - 18
Year 1853
Annual Confined - 182
Daily Daily average - 26
Year 1858
Annual Committed - 269
Daily Daily average - 27
Year 1863
Annual Committed - 204
Daily Greatest number - 32
Year 1868
Annual Committed - 283
Daily Daily average - 24
Year 1873
Annual Committed - 255
Daily Daily average - 28
Year 1878
Annual Committed - 49
Daily Daily average - 0
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: B/100/1/24/54
Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions
Description: Chaplain's report, City Gaol
Dates: 1846
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: C/2/9/1/2/1/1
Collection: Ipswich Borough Quarter Sessions
Description: Letters addressed to the Clerk of the Peace, or forwarded to him, for action, by the Bailiffs, Recorder and Gaoler. Chiefly from the Home Office concerning returns of offenders.
Dates: 1820-1833
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: C/2/9/1/1/6/24
Collection: Ipswich Borough Quarter Sessions
Description: Coroner's inquisitions (1822). Includes accounts of bread supplied for Gaol.
Dates: 1821-1822
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: C/2/9/1/2/6/2
Collection: Ipswich Borough Quarter Sessions
Description: Treasurer of the Marshalsea Rate, vouchers, general series. Later bundles include salaries of Officers such as the Recorder, Gaoler, Keeper of the Bridewell, Gaol Surgeon, Gaol Chaplain and his Clerk, Also, repair of the Gaol and Bridewell, and the welfare of the prisoners, including weekly subsistence payments, detailed accounts of bread supplied to each named prisoner, provision of clothing, shaving them and cutting their hair, and an annual Christmas dinner. Occasional bills and orders for escorting convicted felons to the Hulks to await transportation to the colonies.
Dates: 1696-1832
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: C/2/9/1/2/6
Collection: Ipswich Borough Quarter Sessions
Description: Treasurer of the Marshalsea Rate. Includes information on rates for the maintenance of the Gaol and House of Correction
Dates: 1632-1835
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: C/2/9/1/2/5/1
Collection: Ipswich Borough Quarter Sessions
Description: Register of 'prisoners under confinement in the Town and Borough Gaol'
Dates: 1800-1824