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
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.
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
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.
Year 1823
Annual Committed - 141
Daily Census - 15
