Tewkesbury Borough Gaol

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Overview

Alternative Names   Tewkesbury Gaol

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

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1816

Date closed   1854

Location   Bredon Road   Tewkesbury

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Gloucestershire

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Tewkesbury Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1816

Date closed   1854

Location   Bredon Road   Tewkesbury

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   51.998105  Long.   -2.154829

County   Gloucestershire

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   60

Daily Greatest number   -   10

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   80

Daily Census   -   80

 

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   44

Daily Greatest number   -   12

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   53

Daily Census   -   6

 

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   60

Daily Census   -   5

 

Year 1848

Annual Confined   -   41

Daily Daily average   -   4

 

Year 1853

Annual Confined   -   32

Daily Daily average   -   5

Principal Primary Sources

  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.18
  • [Second] Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1820), p.44; 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.23; 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.19; 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.39; 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.47; 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.15
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (1829, XIX.401), p.49
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.111
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 1 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIII.1), p.126
  • Abstract Return of Establishment and Expenditure of Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.241), p.18
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Third Report (Parl. Papers, 1837-38, XXXI.177), p.55; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1841 Session 2, V.177), p.121; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXI.193), p.135; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXIX.391), p.197; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Eleventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXI.565), p.173; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Twelfth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXV.1), p.183; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Thirteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXVI.133), p.137; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Fifteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXVIII.579), p.150; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Eighteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1852-53, LII.113), p.95

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/archives/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=58233&p=0

Management

Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: QT/CR/2/2

Collection: Tewkesbury Quarter Sessions

Description: Parliamentary returns. Papers concerning prisoners under sentence of transportation, and their removal from Tewkesbury Gaol to Hulks at Greenwich or and Millbank Prison

Dates: 1837-1855


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: QT/CR/2/4

Collection: Tewkesbury Quarter Sessions

Description: Parliamentary returns. Correspondence with Home Office about returns of prisoners in Gaol

Dates: 1853


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: QT/CR/2/5

Collection: Tewkesbury Quarter Sessions

Description: Parliamentary returns. Prison returns (supplementary) (1854-1855), and related letter from Home Office (1856). Returns concern Tewkesbury Gaol, and give total number of prisoners in confinement, number of prisoners for trial, average daily number of prisoners (1854-1855).

Dates: 1854-1856


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: QT/SO/2-3

Collection: Tewkesbury Quarter Sessions

Description: Tewkesbury Quarter Sessions order books. Includes material relating to the administration of the new Tewkesbury Gaol (from 1816-35)

Dates: 1806-1858


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: TBR/A1/9

Collection: Tewkesbury Borough

Description: Minutes. Relations with County over separate Quarter Sessions, Gaol and conveyance of prisoners

Dates: 1835-1856


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: TBR/A12/1

Collection: Tewkesbury Borough

Description: Minutes of Gaol Committee (at end)

Dates: 1836-1854


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: TBR/B 1/176

Collection: Tewkesbury Borough

Description: Report of Committee of new Gaol

Dates: 1812


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: TBR/B20

Collection: Tewkesbury Borough

Description: Borough Gaol, draft account (1820). Also, bill for meat for prisoners (1822). Draft rules for government of Gaol (1817).

Dates: 1817-1822


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: TBR/B6/1

Collection: Tewkesbury Borough

Description: Answer to questionnaire on conditions in Borough Gaol to Society for Improvement of Prisons

Dates: c.1820


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: TBR/B 1/177, 178

Collection: Tewkesbury Borough

Description: Letter from Tewkesbury overseers to Commissioners for new Gaol (1816). List of Gaol expenses.

Dates: 1813-1816


Finance

Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: QT/AG/1/1

Collection: Tewkesbury Quarter Sessions

Description: Gaol expenses from 20 December 1816 - 'the time it was first opened'. Treasurer's accounts, initially monthly, later quarterly

Dates: 1816-1838


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: QT/AG/1/3

Collection: Tewkesbury Quarter Sessions

Description: Certificate to Justices from Commissioners fixing rate for new Gaol

Dates: 1818


Daily Business

Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: QT/AG/1/5

Collection: Tewkesbury Quarter Sessions

Description: Rough accounts, mainly of bread delivered to Tewkesbury Gaol. Also includes payments for cheese, peas, straw, oatmeal, money paid to prisoners and payments to Matron. Contains notes of prisoners discharged, interspersed with accounts

Dates: 1834-1836


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: QT/AG/1/4

Collection: Tewkesbury Quarter Sessions

Description: Vouchers and miscellaneous papers. Includes agreement to supply bread and a record of its distribution to prisoners

Dates: 1826-1837


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: QT/AG/1/6/1-2

Collection: Tewkesbury Quarter Sessions

Description: Vegetable books, containing accounts of potatoes bought and other necessities

Dates: 1836-1841


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: QT/AG/2/1

Collection: Tewkesbury Quarter Sessions

Description: Prisoners' work book. Records money earned by the prisoners for various activities (mainly stockingmaking) (1816-1821) Separate accounts of cash received for goods made (1820-1836).

Dates: 1817-1836


Staff

Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: D12600/2

Collection: None

Description: Letter (scanned copy) from Matthew Mann in Gloucester to the Town Clerk of Tewkesbury (3 May 1842). Contains his application for the post of Governor and Matron of Tewkesbury Gaol / House of Correction.

Dates: 1842


Prisoners

Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: TBR/A13/1

Collection: Tewkesbury Borough

Description: Register of prisoners in the new Gaol

Dates: 1815-1854


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: QT/AG/2/2

Collection: Tewkesbury Quarter Sessions

Description: Names of prisoners remaining in Tewkesbury Gaol September 1853 and admitted since

Dates: 1853


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: TBR/A13/2

Collection: Tewkesbury Borough

Description: Borough Gaol, receipts for prisoners (1805, 1854), and descriptive return of deserter (1847)

Dates: 1805-1854


Land & Buildings

Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: C/AA/B4

Collection: Gloucestershire County Council

Description: Tewkesbury Borough Gaol, plans, section, elevation

Dates: c.1882-1883


Archive name: Gloucestershire Archives

Catalogue ref: C/AA/B5

Collection: Gloucestershire County Council

Description: Building plans, Tewkesbury Police station, plans and elevations for alterations and additions (the borough gaol was converted for use as the police station, 1882-3)

Dates: c.1882-1883