Truro Town Prison

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Overview

Alternative Names   Truro Town Gaol, Truro Prison

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol, Lock Up

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   c1770

Date closed   [1845]

Location   upper end of Pydar Street   Truro

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Cornwall

Critical Remarks

By the late 1840s, used only as a lock up.

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Truro Town Gaol, Truro Prison

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   c1770

Date closed   [1845]

Location   upper end of Pydar Street   Truro

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   50.2656673  Long.   -5.0556386

County   Cornwall

Critical Remarks

By the late 1840s, used only as a lock up.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   0

Daily Greatest number   -   0

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   0

Daily Census   -   0

 

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   0

Daily Greatest number   -   0

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.564
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.8
  • 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.19; 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.19; 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.6
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (1829, XIX.401), p.28
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.114
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 1 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIII.1), p.657
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Fourteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1849, XXVI.93), p.14

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.historic-cornwall.org.uk/csus/towns/truro/csus_truro_report.pdf

Finance

Archive name: Cornwall Record Office

Catalogue ref: BTRU/234/

Collection: Borough of Truro

Description: Jas. Oates' bill for repairs to Germain Greest's almshouses. Town hall, Prison, hospital, pound etc.

Dates: 1802


Archive name: Cornwall Record Office

Catalogue ref: BTRU/409/1-56

Collection: Borough of Truro

Description: Includes prison expenses

Dates: 1808


Archive name: Cornwall Record Office

Catalogue ref: BTRU/410/1-11

Collection: Borough of Truro

Description: Jas. Oates' bill for repairs to prison.

Dates: 1809


Archive name: Cornwall Record Office

Catalogue ref: BTRU/412

Collection: Borough of Truro

Description: Bill and receipt for ironmonger's and Locksmith's work on prison etc.

Dates: 1814


Land & Buildings

Archive name: Cornwall Record Office

Catalogue ref: TC/113

Collection: None

Description: Conveyance - dwelling house, garden and building formerly used as Town Prison, Pydar Street, Truro

Dates: 1887


Archive name: Cornwall Record Office

Catalogue ref: TC/40

Collection: Truro charities

Description: Copy order approving purchase of City Prison. Charity Commission order.

Dates: 1887


Archive name: Cornwall Record Office

Catalogue ref: X1028

Collection: None

Description: Gordon family property in Tregony, Cornelly, Cuby and Veryan. Sale particulars, including Town Prison.

Dates: 1839


Archive name: Cornwall Record Office

Catalogue ref: X407/33

Collection: None

Description: Survey at Kings Arm Inn, sale of Workhouse and churchyard houses (including Clink or Town Prison)

Dates: 1826-1827