Newcastle Newgate Gaol

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Overview

Alternative Names   Newcastle Upon Tyne County Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1399

Date closed   1823

Location   Newgate, Gate at the upper end of the Town, where Newgate Street at west end of Blackett Street   Newcastle Upon Tyne

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Northumberland

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Newcastle Upon Tyne County Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1399

Date closed   1823

Location   Newgate, Gate at the upper end of the Town, where Newgate Street at west end of Blackett Street   Newcastle Upon Tyne

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   54.9727196  Long.   -1.617443

County   Northumberland

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   88

Daily Greatest number   -   37

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.409
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.36
  • [Second] Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1820), p.58; The Third Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1821), Appendix, p.61; Fifth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1823), Appendix, p.89

Additional Primary Sources

  • William Parson & William White, History, Directory and Gazetteer of the Counties of Durham and Northumberland, Volume 1 (Leeds, 1827), p. liv; Eneas Mackenzie, 'Public buildings: The new prisons', in Historical Account of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Including the Borough of Gateshead (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1827), pp. 218-224. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/newcastle-historical-account/pp218-224; Joseph John Gurney, Notes of a visit made to some of the prisons in Scotland and the north of England, in company with Elizabeth Fry: with some general observations on the subject of prison discipline (London, 1819), p. 10

Secondary Sources

  • https://twarchives.org.uk/collection/user-guides-and-information (user guide 14: law and order)

Management

Archive name: Tyne and Wear Archives

Catalogue ref: QS.NC/1/8-17

Collection: Newcastle upon Tyne Quarter Sessions

Description: Order books. Highly likely to contain material on the administration of Newcastle's gaols and houses of correction

Dates: 1777-1802, 1818-1902


Finance

Archive name: Tyne and Wear Archives

Catalogue ref: QS.NC/16

Collection: Newcastle upon Tyne Quarter Sessions

Description: Orders and accounts of costs incurred by the Keeper of the House of Correction and the Keeper of the Common Goal for the upkeep of prisoners, and by the High Constable for apprehending and moving criminals

Dates: 1812-1816


Staff

Archive name: Northumberland Archives

Catalogue ref: ZCE/F/1/7/3

Collection: None

Description: Letter from George Marshall thanking Mr Carr forĀ supporting his election to the post of Gaoler in Newcastle

Dates: 1806