Norwich Castle County Gaol and House of Correction

Overview

Details

Records

Overview

Alternative Names   Norwich Castle County Gaol, Norwich County Gaol, Norwich Prison

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol & House of Correction/Bridewell

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   14th century [11th century]

Date closed   1887

Location   Norwich Castle   Norwich

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Norfolk

Critical Remarks

Most likely a gaol located within the castle from its first construction in the eleventh century. The county gaol was located here from the fourteenth century onwards.

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Norwich Castle County Gaol, Norwich County Gaol, Norwich Prison

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   14th century [11th century]

Date closed   1887

Location   Norwich Castle   Norwich

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   52.6288246  Long.   1.2956076

County   Norfolk

Critical Remarks

Most likely a gaol located within the castle from its first construction in the eleventh century. The county gaol was located here from the fourteenth century onwards.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   3

Daily Greatest number   -   107

 

Year 1823

Annual Committed   -   0

Daily Census   -   20

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   358

Daily Census   -   95

 

Year 1833

Annual Committed   -   791

Daily Census   -   123

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   736

Daily Census   -   188

 

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   899

Daily Census   -   114

 

Year 1848

Annual Confined   -   848

Daily Daily average   -   93

 

Year 1853

Annual Confined   -   794

Daily Daily average   -   112

 

Year 1858

Annual Committed   -   597

Daily Daily average   -   83

 

Year 1863

Annual Committed   -   818

Daily Greatest number   -   147

 

Year 1868

Annual Committed   -   804

Daily Daily average   -   91

 

Year 1873

Annual Committed   -   483

Daily Daily average   -   64

 

Year 1878

Annual Committed   -   1627

Daily Daily average   -   172

 

Year 1883

Annual Committed   -   1699

Daily Daily average   -   160

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.440
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.34
  • [Second] Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1820), p.20; 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.56; Fourth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1822), Appendix, p.51; 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.80; 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.98; 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.107; Eighth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1832), Appendix, p.31
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1824, XIX.359), p.160; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1825, XXIII.1), p.182; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826, XXIV.1), p.180; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826-27, XIX.365), p.162; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1828, XX.327), p.195; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1829, XIX.1), p.173; Reports and Schedules Pursuant To Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830, XXIV.1), p.174; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830-31, XII.1), p.166; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1831-32. XXXIII.197), p.166; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.1), p.178; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1834, XLVI.1), p.165; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1835, XLIV.225), p.163; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1836, XLII.1), p.107; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837, XLV.1), p.107; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837-8, XLIII.227), p.112; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXXVIII.17), p.108; Reports Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.1), p.116; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1841, XVIII.1), p.121; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXXII.1), p.123; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1843, XLIII.1), p.125; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXXIX.403), p.126; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXXVII.417), p.152; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXXIV.187), p.145; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847, XLVII.297), p.160; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847-48, LII.465), p.158
  • Abstract Return of Establishment and Expenditure of Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.241), p.42
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District. First Report (Parl. Papers, 1836, XXXV.161), p.37; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern, Third Report (Parl. Papers, 1837-38, XXXI.1), p.144; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXII.1), p.169; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXV.565), p.91; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXI.1), p.130; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1843, XXV. & XXVI.249), p.170; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Tenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXIV.1), p.178; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland and Eastern District, Fourteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1849, XXVI.1), p.28; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fifteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXVIII.291), p.1; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Sixteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1851, XXVII.461), p.150; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Seventeenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1852-53, LII.1), p.64; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Eighteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1856, XXXIII.1), p.41; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Nineteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1856, XXXIII.385), p.48; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Twentieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1857, Session 1, VII.313), p.39; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Twenty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1857-58, XXIX.1), p.41; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-third Report (Parl. Papers, 1859, Session 1, XI.1), p.74; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1860, XXXV.1), p.68; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1860, XXXV.229), p.66; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1861, XXIX.45), p.70; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1862, XXV.93), p.73; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1863, XXIII.1), p.57; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirtieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1865, XXIII.1), p.165; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1866, XXXVII.1), p.146; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1867-68, XXXIV.203), p.197; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-third Report (Parl. Papers, 1868-69, XXIX.1), p.138; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1870, XXXVII.1), p.150; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1871, XXIX.241), p.184; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1872, XXXI.1), p.108; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1873, XXXII.1), p.215; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1874, XXIX.1), p.247; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1875, XXXVII.1), p.267; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Fortieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1876, XXXV.1), p.267; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Forty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1877, XLIII.1), p.273; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Forty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1878, XLI.1), p.275
  • Commissioners of Prisons, Second Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1878-79, XXXIV.1, 97), p.56; Commissioners of Prisons, Third Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1880, XXXV.1,73), p.71; Commissioners of Prisons, Fourth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1881, LI.441, 521), p.73; Commissioners of Prisons, Fifth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1882, XXXIII.443, 541), p.79; Commissioners of Prisons, Sixth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1883, XXXI.445, 579), p.79; Commissioners of Prisons, Seventh Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1884, XLII.461, 551), p.77; Commissioners of Prisons, Eighth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1884-85, XXXVII.527, 651), p.77; Commissioners of Prisons, Ninth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1886, XXXV.1, 93), p.72; Commissioners of Prisons, Tenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1887, XLI.203, 335), p.68

Additional Primary Sources

  • Francis White, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Norfolk (Sheffield, 1854), p. 82

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.archives.norfolk.gov.uk/view/NCC098527; http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/Visit_Us/Norwich_Castle/Whats_here/A_history_of_Norwich_Castle/index.htm

Management

Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/Saa 1/15

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Accounts, correspondence and other papers (regarding building work, appointments, dietary, supplies, individual prisoners)

Dates: 1828-1835


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/Saa 1/17

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Correspondence and draft returns to requests for information about the Gaol

Dates: 1832-1836


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/Saa 1/19

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Accounts, correspondence and other papers (regarding individual prisoners, conveyance of prisoners, treadmill, supplies)

Dates: 1833-1837


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/Saa 1/23

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Correspondence concerning the treatment of vagrants and their ailments

Dates: 1842


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/Saa 1/25

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Proposed dietary for Norwich Castle

Dates: 1843


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/Saa 1/35

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Maintenance of prisoners from Yarmouth Borough Gaol at Norwich County Gaol

Dates: 1864


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/Saa 1/4

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Report of the Committee of Magistrates for superintending and regulating of the County Gaol of Norfolk

Dates: 1819


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/Saa 1/7

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Proposed classification of prisoners at new gaol

Dates: 1825


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/Saa 1/9

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Correspondence re treadmill

Dates: 1823-1827


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/Saa 2/37

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Report of Prison Inspectors for Southern District

Dates: 1875


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/S 5/2

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Committee for improving Castle Hill and altering County Gaol and Courts of Justice

Dates: 1807-1821


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: GTN 5/9/46

Collection: Harbord papers

Description: Speech notes, including 'Notes respecting new County Jail' given to Prison Committee. Regarding state of Prisons.

Dates: 1820-1834


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: HMP 12/1

Collection: Her Majesty's Prison Norwich

Description: Prison Inspector's and Director's minute books

Dates: 1881-1939


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: HMP 33/1-2

Collection: Her Majesty's Prison Norwich

Description: Copies of Prison Commission circulars and memoranda

Dates: 1885-1889


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: HMP 37/1

Collection: Her Majesty's Prison Norwich

Description: Books of reference: Acts of Parliament and Statutory Rules and Orders

Dates: 1884-1933


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: MS 21473, 294X1

Collection: None

Description: Norfolk, Sheriff's office, Gaol assignment

Dates: 1825


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/S 4

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Sessions minute books of administrative business, including reports of Visiting Justices, Keepers and Surgeons of County Gaol and the various Bridewells

Dates: 1799-1968


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/Saa 1/26

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Notices of the appointment of Visiting Justices to the County Gaol

Dates: 1843-1853


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/Saa 1/8

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Report of the Visiting Justices in respect of the new gaol

Dates: 1823-1827


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/Saa 2/11

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Quarter Sessions resolutions confirming appointments of Visiting Justices to the County Gaol

Dates: 1834-1835


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: T/TC 5/14

Collection: Thetford Borough Council

Description: Visiting Justices of Norfolk and the Corporation of Thetford. Case for opinion re expense of maintenance in the County Gaol of prisoners from Thetford Workhouse, with Counsel's opinion.

Dates: 1868


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/S 5/1

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Committee Minutes, Visiting Justices of the County Gaol

Dates: 1809-1814


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: HMP 11/1

Collection: Her Majesty's Prison Norwich

Description: Chairman of Visiting Committee's papers

Dates: 1863, 1882-1910


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: MF 879-881

Collection: Microfilm

Description: Visiting Justices minute books

Dates: 1825-1872


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: MS 20337, 126X3

Collection: None

Description: Letters between Reverend E. Postle, Chairman of the Visiting Justices of Norwich Castle, and the Secretary of State

Dates: 1849


Archive name: Norwich Castle Museum

Catalogue ref: NRA 42783

Collection: None

Description: Minutes, visiting book, chapel books, surgical journals, diet books, building accounts, and miscellaneous architectural papers at Norwich Castle Museum

Dates: 1735-1877


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: GTN 5/9/21

Collection: Harbord papers

Description: Letters. Subjects include: Norwich Gaol list, Norwich Gaol building, prisoner numbers in County and City Gaols, new County Gaol, Harbord's appointment to County Gaol Committee, Committee aims, Gaol enlargement, classification' and inspection of prisoners, architects and submission of plans.

Dates: 1819-1820


Daily Business

Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: MF/RO 576

Collection: Microfilm

Description: Keeper's daily journal

Dates: 1822-1835


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: MF/RO 576

Collection: Microfilm

Description: Surgeon's journals

Dates: 1843-1846, 1848-1850


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/Saa 1/18

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Monthly rota of Visitors of the County Gaol

Dates: 1833-1841


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: MF 881-882

Collection: Microfilm

Description: Gaol chapel books, gives names of prisoners and other details

Dates: 1816-1839


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: MF/RO 576

Collection: Microfilm

Description: Diet record book

Dates: 1831-1832


Staff

Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: HMP 16/1

Collection: Her Majesty's Prison Norwich

Description: Registers of Officers

Dates: 1882-1906


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: BOL 5/30, 742 x 6

Collection: Bolingbroke collection

Description: Correspondence on ecclesiastical matters. Includes letter from I. N. Cobb, (Chaplain to the Prisons), to the Norwich Corporation requesting increase in salary and offering his resignation.

Dates: 1835-1911


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/S/5/17-18

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Volumes of accounts of salaries paid to Chaplains, Surgeons and Gaolers etc. and of bills examined and posted 'by the Committee appointed for the purpose'.

Dates: 1866-1891


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/Saa 1/21

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Letters of application and recommendation for the post of superintendent of the mill at the Castle Gaol

Dates: 1834-1835


Prisoners

Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: HMP 1/1-7

Collection: Her Majesty's Prison Norwich

Description: Nominal registers of prisoners

Dates: 1879-1887


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: HMP 2/1-2

Collection: Her Majesty's Prison Norwich

Description: Indexes to nominal registers of prisoners

Dates: 1879-1898


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: MC 1462. 812X6

Collection: None

Description: List and account of prisoners in the custody of William Chambers and John Marshall, Sheriffs of Norwich, assigned to Horatio Bolinbroke, the new Sheriff

Dates: 1836


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/Saa 1/7

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Letter from Whitehall about the prisoners John Stevenson and William Toll

Dates: 1826


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/Saa 1/8

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Letters concerning an application to the Secretary of State on behalf of John Gooch, a prisoner, 1827

Dates: 1827


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: ACC 2012/60

Collection: None

Description: Return of prisoners removed from Norwich Castle to other prisons before trial

Dates: 1836-1837


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: FX 99

Collection: None

Description: Copy of a Letter from James Rush in Norwich Prison

Dates: 1849


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: HEN

Collection: Papers of J. F. Henderson

Description: James Frederick Henderson was sentenced to four months' imprisonment in Norwich Castle following food riots in Norwich (1885)

Dates: 1885-1957


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: MC 2089/1, 441X8

Collection: None

Description: Letter by James Blomefield Rush while in Norwich Castle Gaol, to the landlord of the Bell Hotel Norwich, with requests concerning his meals.

Dates: 1849


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: MS 20511, 132X6

Collection: None

Description: Warrants

Dates: 1839-1840


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: N/PO 1-2

Collection: Norwich City Council

Description: Additional records, including annual returns of prisoners conveyed to Norwich Castle

Dates: 1881-1931


Land & Buildings

Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/Saa 1/16

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Builder's report on pumpeases in the prison yards

Dates: 1831?


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/Saa 1/24

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Report of the County Surveyor (re Castle)

Dates: 1842


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/Saa 1/29-32

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Plans, correspondence etc regarding treadmills

Dates: undated


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/Saa 1/5-8

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Correspondence, reports and accounts for (building) work at the Castle (Gaol)

Dates: 1822-1827


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/Saa 2/11-35

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Includes papers on restoration and repair work to Norwich Castle (where the county gaol was located)

Dates: 1834-1840


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/Saa 2/38

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Copy agreement for sale of Norwich Castle Prison by Prison Commissioners and others to Norwich Corporation, with plan

Dates: 1884


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/Saa 2/39

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Plan (tracing) of Norwich Castle Prison by R.M. Phipson, County Surveyor

Dates: 1883


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/Saa 2/40

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Reports, memoranda, letters etc (concerning the gaol buildings, sale of buildings and closure of gaol)

Dates: 1877-1888


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: AWA 1/7

Collection: None

Description: Large scale map of Norwich showing the area bounded by the New Mills, County Gaol and Crooks Place

Dates: c.1850


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: BR 35/7/5

Collection: None

Description: Norwich Castle, plan of Castle laid out as Gaol

Dates: undated


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: GTN 5/9/50

Collection: Harbord papers

Description: Correspondence. Includes details pertaining to Norfolk Magistrates' meeting and resolutions passed on Castle Hill as site for new Norwich Gaol; coloured map of gardens at St Giles Gates, Norwich labelled by Suffield 'Plan of ground for new prison Norwich'

Dates: 1821-1823


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: SO 50/4/8

Collection: None

Description: Panoramic view of the City of Norwich and surrounding country, with a perspective view of the Castle and County Gaol inscribed by W. Stevenson, J. Matchett and S. W. Stevenson for the Justices of the Peace for Norfolk

Dates: 1809


Images

Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: MC 757/6, 793X4

Collection: None

Description: Photograph of the Prison and Cattlemarket, Norwich

Dates: 1877


Other

Archive name: East Sussex Record Office

Catalogue ref: AMS6712/1/6

Collection: None

Description: Letter from William Vincent, to his wife Elizabeth, includes account of a drive round Norwich to see the Cathedral, Castle, barracks, Prison and suburbs.

Dates: 1829


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: MC 511/10, 759x3

Collection: Letters and papers of Elizabeth Fry

Description: Letter. Amelia Opie (Norwich) to Elizabeth Fry dealing with her stay at Earlham. She tells of her experience at the Prison.

Dates: 1825