Southampton House of Correction

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Overview

Alternative Names   Southampton Bridewell, Southampton Town Bridewell

Prison Type   Local Prison -  House of Correction/Bridewell

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1707

Date closed   1835

Location   God's House Gateway (South East Gate), old tower, bottom end of town   Southampton

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Hampshire

Critical Remarks

Located on the same site as the Southampton Town Gaol (ID 172), the two prisons officially merged in 1835. However, the prisons still appeared as separate institutions in the 1838 Digest.

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Southampton Bridewell, Southampton Town Bridewell

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1707

Date closed   1835

Location   God's House Gateway (South East Gate), old tower, bottom end of town   Southampton

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   50.8964615  Long.   -1.4038955

County   Hampshire

Critical Remarks

Located on the same site as the Southampton Town Gaol (ID 172), the two prisons officially merged in 1835. However, the prisons still appeared as separate institutions in the 1838 Digest.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   27

Daily Greatest number   -   5

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   63

Daily Census   -   63

 

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   90

Daily Greatest number   -   25

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   214

Daily Census   -   21

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.532
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.20
  • 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.35
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (1829, XIX.401), p.56
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.102
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 2 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIII.133), p.885
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District. First Report (Parl. Papers, 1836, XXXV.269), p.20; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837, XXXII.1), p.39

Additional Primary Sources

  • William White, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (Sheffield, 1859), p. 140.

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hants/vol3/pp490-524

Management

Archive name: Southampton Archives Office

Catalogue ref: D/PM/5/3/2/4, 7

Collection: Page and Moody Collection (Southampton Quarter Sessions)

Description: Returns for House of Correction

Dates: 1824-1825


Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: 92M95/F2/1/19

Collection: Baring (Northbook) family

Description: Printed report of the Visiting Justices upon the state of the Gaol and Bridewell for the County of Southampton, presented to the Epiphany Sessions

Dates: 1819


Finance

Archive name: Southampton Archives Office

Catalogue ref: SC9/4/801

Collection: Southampton Corporation

Description: Receipted bill of Peter Blythe for repairs down to the windows in the Debtors' Gaol, Guildhall, Bridewell and Felons' Gaol 

Dates: 1807


Archive name: Southampton Archives Office

Catalogue ref: SC9/4/809

Collection: Southampton Corporation

Description: Receipted bill of Peter Blythe for work done on the windows in the Debtors' Gaol, Guildhall, Felons' Gaol and Bridewell

Dates: 1808


Archive name: Southampton Archives Office

Catalogue ref: SC9/4/817

Collection: Southampton Corporation

Description: Receipted bill of Peter Watts for Carpenter's and Joiner's work at the Bridewell

Dates: 1808


Staff

Archive name: Southampton Archives Office

Catalogue ref: SC9/4/802

Collection: Southampton Corporation

Description: Receipted bill of Joseph Payne as Keeper of the Bridewell

Dates: 1808


Prisoners

Archive name: Southampton Archives Office

Catalogue ref: D/PM/5/3/25/6

Collection: Page and Moody Collection (Southampton Quarter Sessions)

Description: List of boys under imprisonment in Bridewell

Dates: 1819