Alternative Names Ipswich Borough Bridewell; Ipswich Town and Borough Bridewell
Prison Type Local Prison - House of Correction/Bridewell
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened 1810
Date closed [1843]
Location Shire Hall Yard Ipswich
Map location in the vicinity
County Suffolk
Last appears in the penal statistics for 1842. After that date, merged with Ipswich Borough Gaol (ID 291) and moved to that site.
Alternative Names Ipswich Borough Bridewell; Ipswich Town and Borough Bridewell
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened 1810
Date closed [1843]
Location Shire Hall Yard Ipswich
Map location in the vicinity
Lat. 52.052269 Long. 1.1489201
County Suffolk
Last appears in the penal statistics for 1842. After that date, merged with Ipswich Borough Gaol (ID 291) and moved to that site.
Year 1818
Annual Committed - 42
Daily Greatest number - 10
Year 1832
Annual Committed - 25
Daily Greatest number - 3
Year 1838
Annual Confined - 93
Daily Census - 5
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. There are 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/3/10/8/2/5
Collection: Ipswich Borough Quarter Sessions
Description: Charity and other Corporation buildings in Ipswich. Manuscript map by John Bransby. Plan of Christ's Hospital, Tooley's and Smart's Foundations, the Shire Hall, Bridewell, Grammar School etc., Ipswich.
Dates: undated