Newcastle Moot Hall

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Overview

Alternative Names   Newcastle Moot Hall Lock Up House

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1812

Date closed   [1828]

Location   Castle Garth, Westgate   Newcastle Upon Tyne

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Northumberland

Critical Remarks

In the basement of the New Moot Hall, built 1810-12. Likely replaced the Sessions Prison (ID 653) which was built an in use much earlier. The Prison of the New Moot Hall was used to confine borough prisoners in the interval between the demolition of the old Newcastle Newgate Gaol (ID 521) and the construction of the new Newgate Gaol and House of Correction (ID 111), c1823-28. Only criminal prisoners were confined in the New Moot Hall in this period; debtors were sent to the Castle Garth or Keep (ID 652). Once the new Gol had been completed, the Moot Hall again became a lock up, and was visited by the prison inspectors during the 1840s and 1850s. Date of closure unknown.

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Newcastle Moot Hall Lock Up House

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1812

Date closed   [1828]

Location   Castle Garth, Westgate   Newcastle Upon Tyne

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   54.9687048  Long.   -1.6122586

County   Northumberland

Critical Remarks

In the basement of the New Moot Hall, built 1810-12. Likely replaced the Sessions Prison (ID 653) which was built an in use much earlier. The Prison of the New Moot Hall was used to confine borough prisoners in the interval between the demolition of the old Newcastle Newgate Gaol (ID 521) and the construction of the new Newgate Gaol and House of Correction (ID 111), c1823-28. Only criminal prisoners were confined in the New Moot Hall in this period; debtors were sent to the Castle Garth or Keep (ID 652). Once the new Gol had been completed, the Moot Hall again became a lock up, and was visited by the prison inspectors during the 1840s and 1850s. Date of closure unknown.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1823

Annual Committed   -   141

Daily Census   -   15

Principal Primary Sources

  • 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.109; 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.118
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1824, XIX.359), p.286; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1825, XXIII.1), p.368; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826, XXIV.1), p.358; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826-27, XIX.365), p.312; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1828, XX.327), p.368
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Northumberland and Durham, Sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1841 Session 2, V.413), p.44; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Northumberland and Durham, Ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXIX.973), p.59; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Northumberland and Durham, Eleventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1846, XX.461), p.78; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Northern District, Fourteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1849, XXVI.167), p.16; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Fifteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXVIII.793), p.74; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Sixteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1851, XXVII.837), p.78; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Seventeenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1852-53, LII.265), p.89; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Eighteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1852-53, LII.361), p.81; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Nineteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1854, XXXII.1), p.82; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Twentieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1854-55, XXVI.123), p.60; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Twenty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1856, XXXIII.657), p.64; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Scotland, Twenty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1857 Session 1, VII.505), p.63; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Northern District, Twenty-fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1859, Session 1, XI.213), p.50; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Northern District, Twenty-fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1860, XXXV.381), p.41

Additional Primary Sources

  • Eneas Mackenzie, 'Public buildings: The county courts', in Historical Account of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Including the Borough of Gateshead (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1827), pp. 224-229. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/newcastle-historical-account/pp224-229

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-304451-moot-hall-#.WG-r9lOLRhE