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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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