Alternative Names Ipswich County Gaol, Ipswich Prison, HMP Ipswich
Prison Type Local Prison - Common Gaol & House of Correction/Bridewell
Jurisdiction County
Date opened 1790
Date closed post 1900 (1925)
Location St Helen's Street Ipswich
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Suffolk
Alternative Names Ipswich County Gaol, Ipswich Prison, HMP Ipswich
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction County
Date opened 1790
Date closed post 1900 (1925)
Location St Helen's Street Ipswich
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 52.056772 Long. 1.16161
County Suffolk
Year 1818
Annual Committed - 153
Daily Greatest number - 55
Year 1823
Annual Committed - 467
Daily Census - 91
Year 1828
Annual Committed - 383
Daily Census - 69
Year 1833
Annual Committed - 515
Daily Census - 97
Year 1838
Annual Confined - 541
Daily Census - 190
Year 1843
Annual Confined - 782
Daily Census - 86
Year 1848
Annual Confined - 640
Daily Daily average - 87
Year 1853
Annual Confined - 652
Daily Daily average - 98
Year 1858
Annual Committed - 429
Daily Daily average - 72
Year 1863
Annual Committed - 580
Daily Greatest number - 124
Year 1868
Annual Committed - 540
Daily Daily average - 70
Year 1873
Annual Committed - 437
Daily Daily average - 56
Year 1878
Annual Committed - 784
Daily Daily average - 102
Year 1883
Annual Committed - 873
Daily Daily average - 106
Year 1888
Annual Committed - 1080
Daily Daily average - 132
Year 1893
Annual Committed - 865
Daily -
Year 1898
Annual Committed - 892
Daily -
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: IY400
Collection: None
Description: HM Prison, Ipswich. Records, including paybooks, registers of Officers, and Prison Visitor Committee minutes.
Dates: 1878-1925
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: B/100/1/61
Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions
Description: Includes report of Chaplain, Ipswich Gaol (1832-1833)
Dates: 1831-1834
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: HB26/412/2079
Collection: Rous family, Earls of Stradbroke
Description: Letter from John Kerrich, concerning claim to fines imposed at Quarter Sessions. Collected from the Keeper of the House of Correction on behalf of John Garden.
Dates: 1852
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: B/100/1/23/57-58
Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions
Description: Ipswich Gaol, female prisoners and visitors' reports
Dates: 1844
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: B/100/1/24/53
Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions
Description: Report on state of health of prisoners in County Gaol
Dates: 1845
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: B/100/1/25/52
Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions
Description: Return from county gaol, Ipswich
Dates: undated
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: B/100/1/25/55
Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions
Description: Ipswich Gaol, annual return
Dates: 1850
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: B/100/1/29B/22
Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions
Description: Gaol returns and reports
Dates: 1852-1855
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: B/100/1/30A/9
Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions
Description: Letters and notices, including re Gaol and Police Committees
Dates: 1865-1867
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: B/100/1/30B/7
Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions
Description: Gaol reports , certificates
Dates: 1833-1836
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: B/100/1/31/11
Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions
Description: Returns of prisons
Dates: 1857
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: B/100/1/64
Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions
Description: General papers, series two. Chiefly circulars and returns from and to Secretaries of State relating to (among other things) gaols.
Dates: 1826-1841
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: B/106/3/11
Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions
Description: Visitation books, Ipswich Gaol and House of Correction, printed rules and regulations
Dates: 1829
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: HA11/B3/15
Collection: Rous family archives
Description: Note of number of prisoners in Ipswich Gaol
Dates: 1851
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: HA11/B3/9
Collection: Rous family archives
Description: Returns of prisoners in Ipswich Gaol and Beccles House of Correction
Dates: 1846-1851
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: HA24/4/4/3
Collection: None
Description: Papers relating to Ipswich Gaol, including extensions and repairs. With abstract of commitments (1796-1819), and advertisement of flour ground by prisoners in the Gaol.
Dates: 1796-1820
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: EE5/5/48
Collection: Orford Borough and Orford Town Trust
Description: Account of George Newcock with Corporation for taking prisoners to Ipswich Gaol
Dates: 1860
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: B/106/3/3
Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions
Description: County Gaol Ipswich. Election of Captain and Mrs Crickitt as Govenor and Matron (1871). Applications for post of Govenor and Matron (1852). 'Johnson's Bells' (tradesmen and officers) in County Gaol, Ipswich (1840-1845).
Dates: 1840-1871
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: B/106/2C/2.8
Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions
Description: Loose papers and correspondence concerning the erection of the hall and Courts, the holding of Assizes, and appointment of Jailers, Ipswich. Including application of Charles Miles.
Dates: 1834-1841
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: B/106/3/10
Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions
Description: Minutes and papers concerning pensions and other matters, Ipswich and Bury Gaols
Dates: 1864-1881
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: BB3/2/1/1
Collection: Bosmere and Claydon Petty Sessions
Description: Letter from Frank Morgan, Offton Castle, to the Deputy Chief Constable, County Gaol, Ipswich. Concerning Truck Amendment Act forbidding provision of intoxicating liquor in addition to wages.
Dates: 1889
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: 26M62/F/C636
Collection: None
Description: Letter to Lord Calthorpe from F. S. Barlee, County Gaol, Ipswich. Pleading with Lord Calthorpe to help her against the cruelty of her husband and the trustees of her marriage settlement.
Dates: 1823
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: A609/1-30
Collection: None
Description: Ipswich County Gaol, Receiving Books
Dates: 1840-1870
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: B/100/1/24/59
Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions
Description: Letter re escape of prisoner
Dates: undated
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: B/100/1/25/4
Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions
Description: Approval of plan by Secretary of State. Ipswich Gaol.
Dates: 1852
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: B/106/2C/2.21
Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions
Description: Draft conveyances of County Gaol, County Hall, Police Station, Ipswich and other County properties to Justices of the Peace
Dates: 1824-1860
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: B/106/3/7.1
Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions
Description: Plans, Ipswich Gaol, amendments and additions
Dates: 1852
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: B/106/3/7.2
Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions
Description: Plans, Ipswich Gaol, alterations etc
Dates: 1878
Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch
Catalogue ref: HD 844
Collection: None
Description: Gaol and House of Correction, St Helens Street and Rope Lane Ipswich, Suffolk. Includes a plan and a partial copy.
Dates: c.1859