Newcastle Upon Tyne Sessions Prison

Overview

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Overview

Prison Type   Local Prison -  House of Correction/Bridewell

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   pre 1800

Date closed   1812

Location   Castle Garth, Westgate   Newcastle Upon Tyne

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Northumberland

Critical Remarks

A House of Correction distinct from that located at Manor Place (ID 112). Neild says for prisoners from the Quarter Sessions (and last visited it in c1809). Date of abolition likely between 1810-12 with the building of the New Moot Hall (containing a new prison, ID 536).

Prison Info

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   pre 1800

Date closed   1812

Location   Castle Garth, Westgate   Newcastle Upon Tyne

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

County   Northumberland

Critical Remarks

A House of Correction distinct from that located at Manor Place (ID 112). Neild says for prisoners from the Quarter Sessions (and last visited it in c1809). Date of abolition likely between 1810-12 with the building of the New Moot Hall (containing a new prison, ID 536).

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.413

Additional Primary Sources

  • Neild, 'Remarks on Newcastle Prisons', Gentleman's Magazine, 76 (1806), p. 122.

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