Alternative Names Lawford's Gate, County Bridewell
Prison Type Local Prison - House of Correction/Bridewell
Jurisdiction County
Date opened 1791
Date closed [1854]
Location out-parish of St Philip and St Jacob of City Of Bristol, at Lawford's Gate (under current Gloucester House, Bristol) Bristol
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Gloucestershire
Last appears in the penal statistics for 1853.
Alternative Names Lawford's Gate, County Bridewell
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction County
Date opened 1791
Date closed [1854]
Location out-parish of St Philip and St Jacob of City Of Bristol, at Lawford's Gate (under current Gloucester House, Bristol) Bristol
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 51.4958492 Long. -2.590455
County Gloucestershire
Last appears in the penal statistics for 1853.
Year 1818
Annual Committed - 316
Daily Greatest number - 42
Year 1823
Annual Committed - 177
Daily Census - 7
Year 1828
Annual Committed - 288
Daily Census - 9
Year 1833
Annual Committed - 311
Daily Census - 25
Year 1838
Annual Confined - 247
Daily Census - 12
Year 1843
Annual Confined - 250
Daily Census - 18
Year 1848
Annual Confined - 348
Daily Daily average - 33
Year 1853
Annual Confined - 190
Daily Daily average - 14
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/Gla/2
Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions
Description: Orders made at Quarter Sessions
Dates: 1844-1867
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: Bristol Archives
Catalogue ref: F/AC/Box/125/4
Collection: None
Description: Chamberlain's vouchers. Improvements including to Bridewell, Newgate and including expenses of Lawford Gate Prison (1813)
Dates: 1813
Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives
Catalogue ref: Q/Gla/1
Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions
Description: Keeper's journal
Dates: 1820-1826
Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives
Catalogue ref: Q/AG/30/32
Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions
Description: Applications for posts at Lawford's Gate House of Correction (governor)
Dates: 1845
Archive name: Bristol Archives
Catalogue ref: D/77/1
Collection: None
Description: Books of City properties, plans of Lawford's Gate Prison
Dates: 1857-1885
Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives
Catalogue ref: D2593/2/55
Collection: Fulljames and Waller of Gloucester, Architects
Description: Bristol - alterations and additions to Lawford's Gate House of Correction
Dates: 1843-1844
Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives
Catalogue ref: D2593/2/6
Collection: Fulljames and Waller of Gloucester, Architects
Description: Stapleton - rebuilding of Lawfords Gate House of Correction after destruction during Bristol Riots. Includes working drawings, plans, elevations, sections, specification, details and copies made by Fulljames of original drawings for House of Correction (c.1790)
Dates: 1831-1833
Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives
Catalogue ref: Q/AG/3
Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions
Description: Building plans, original. Lawford's Gate Petty Sessional Court in Prison, plans and proposed alterations
Dates: 1859
Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives
Catalogue ref: Q/RUm/201/2
Collection: Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions
Description: Bristol water supply improvements, plan and section (volume, printed), book of reference, W. H. Townsend and G. C. Ashmead, Bristol, Surveyors, Jason Simpson, London, Engineer. Includes new Gaol, Lawford's Gate Prison
Dates: 1845
Archive name: Bristol Archives
Catalogue ref: K450
Collection: None
Description: Bristol Riots - Prisoners Escorted by Torchlight, oil on paper by James Baker Pyne
Dates: 1832
Archive name: Bristol Archives
Catalogue ref: M4115
Collection: None
Description: Bristol Riots - The Gaol Burning, oil on paper by William Walter Wheatley
Dates: 1831
Archive name: Bristol Archives
Catalogue ref: M4117
Collection: None
Description: Bristol Riots - The Burning of Lawford's Gate Prison, oil on paper by James Baker Pyne
Dates: 1831
Archive name: Bristol Archives
Catalogue ref: PicBox/5/EvPic/10
Collection: None
Description: Lawford's Gate Gaol burning, Bristol Riots
Dates: 1831
Archive name: Bristol Archives
Catalogue ref: Postcards/87/1-6
Collection: None
Description: Postcard photographs, aspects of Lawford's Gate Prison
Dates: c.1900