Alternative Names Norwich City Gaol and House of Correction
Prison Type Local Prison - Common Gaol & House of Correction/Bridewell
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened 1826
Date closed 1878
Location end of St Giles' Street in Heigham hamlet/ present day Earlham Road & Unthank Road, now a Catholic church on site built 1882-1910 (St John the Baptist Cathedral) Norwich
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Norfolk
The Norwich House of Correction (ID 518), located on the same site as the City Gaol and sharing the same senior management, officially merged with the Gaol in 1838, becoming one institution.
Alternative Names Norwich City Gaol and House of Correction
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened 1826
Date closed 1878
Location end of St Giles' Street in Heigham hamlet/ present day Earlham Road & Unthank Road, now a Catholic church on site built 1882-1910 (St John the Baptist Cathedral) Norwich
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 52.6291383 Long. 1.2838765
County Norfolk
The Norwich House of Correction (ID 518), located on the same site as the City Gaol and sharing the same senior management, officially merged with the Gaol in 1838, becoming one institution.
Year 1828
Annual Committed - 166
Daily Census - 24
Year 1833
Annual Committed - 368
Daily Census - 36
Year 1838
Annual Confined - 850
Daily Census - 71
Year 1843
Annual Confined - 869
Daily Census - 80
Year 1848
Annual Confined - 569
Daily Daily average - 56
Year 1853
Annual Confined - 475
Daily Daily average - 62
Year 1858
Annual Committed - 477
Daily Daily average - 68
Year 1863
Annual Committed - 515
Daily Greatest number - 120
Year 1868
Annual Committed - 464
Daily Daily average - 70
Year 1873
Annual Committed - 320
Daily Daily average - 45
Year 1878
Annual Committed - 13
Daily Daily average - 0
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: N/S 2/1-11
Collection: Norwich City Council
Description: Quarter Sessions minute books
Dates: 1839-1971
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: N/TC 11/1-6
Collection: Norwich City Council
Description: Gaol Committee minute books
Dates: 1836-1878
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: NCR Case 19
Collection: City of Norwich Records
Description: Minute books and ledger and cash accounts of various Assembly Committees. Includes records of the City, Coal, Market, River and Streets, Tonnage, Bridewell, and Gaol Committees, and of the Chamberlain's Council.
Dates: 1556-1857
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: NCR Case 19c
Collection: City of Norwich Records
Description: Gaol Committee minute books
Dates: 1799-1836
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: NCR Case 20a (MF 612-620)
Collection: City of Norwich Records
Description: Norwich City Quarter Sessions minute books. Likely to contain material relevant to the administration of the borough prisons
Dates: 1511-1846
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: N/S 10
Collection: Norwich City Council
Description: Visiting Justices' order books
Dates: 1846-1878
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: N/T 21
Collection: Norwich City Council
Description: Orders on the Treasurer for payment made by (among others) Gaol and House of Correction Committee
Dates: 1836-1865
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: NCR Case 18b
Collection: City of Norwich Records
Description: Chamberlains' annual account books, fees and salaries. Taxes paid by Corporation for various properties (Workhouse, Waterworks, Brewhouse and Mint, Gaol, Butchery and Fishery, Gun House etc). Payments by bills and orders (eg drink for prisoners on public days). Also, payments by orders of Committee (eg for Gaol, Hay House).
Dates: 1700-1835
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: NCR 12d
Collection: City of Norwich Records
Description: Gaoler's certificates of numbers
Dates: 1808-1834
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: DN/MSC7/13
Collection: Diocese of Norwich records
Description: File of copies writs issued by Norwich Sheriff and Gaol delivery sentences
Dates: 1834-1835
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: NCR Case 12d
Collection: City of Norwich Records
Description: Sessional returns of prisoners
Dates: 1702-1833
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: NCR Case 6a
Collection: City of Norwich Records
Description: Coroners' inquests, including prisoners
Dates: 1669-1835
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: DS 239
Collection: None
Description: Norwich Heigham estate map, Unthank Road, City Gaol area
Dates: undated
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: N/TC 52/2
Collection: Norwich City Council
Description: Site of Norwich City Gaol, Unthank Road. Left to the Corporation in trust for the Prison by Sir John Pettus. Correspondence with Charity Commission, Home Office, Treasury and others, and case for opinion on sale of part of site (1872-1880). Correspondence, minutes of Special Committee, Counsel's opinion, plans relating to sale of site to Duke of Norfolk for building a Roman Catholic church.
Dates: 1872-1892
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: NCR Case 16e
Collection: City of Norwich Records
Description: Tenders, with plans, elevations, sections and specifications for the new Gaol, including by William Cubitt
Dates: 1823-1831
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: NCR Case 16e/38
Collection: City of Norwich Records
Description: Report of City Surveyor, J. T. Patience, on the insecure state of the Gaol (1837). Also, plan of a proposed new wall near the infirmary.
Dates: 1837
Archive name: Norfolk Record Office
Catalogue ref: RC 2/140
Collection: Norwich Roman Catholic Cathedral
Description: Inventory of plant on old Gaol site, and offices.
Dates: 1882-1886