Prison Type Local Prison - Common Gaol
Jurisdiction County
Date opened c1676
Date closed 1860
Location Northgate Street and Wallditch (now Barrack Street) Warwick
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Warwickshire
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction County
Date opened c1676
Date closed 1860
Location Northgate Street and Wallditch (now Barrack Street) Warwick
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 52.2830521 Long. -1.5902385
County Warwickshire
Year 1818
Annual Committed - 549
Daily Greatest number - 315
Year 1823
Annual Committed - 437
Daily Census - 516
Year 1828
Annual Committed - 645
Daily Census - 119
Year 1833
Annual Committed - 784
Daily Census - 159
Year 1838
Annual Confined - 1329
Daily Census - 173
Year 1843
Annual Confined - 1477
Daily Census - 161
Year 1848
Annual Confined - 1683
Daily Daily average - 236
Year 1853
Annual Confined - 669
Daily Daily average - 124
Year 1858
Annual Committed - 711
Daily Daily average - 110
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: Z0415/1(SM)
Collection: None
Description: Report on Warwick Gaol by Thomas Warner, Gaoler of Bedford
Dates: 1818
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 24/h/i/587 Â
Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Gaol Keepers' certificates, certifying that rules of the Prison have been complied with. Chaplains' and Surgeons' reports are occasionally to be found with these certificates.
Dates: 1824-1836
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: CR 611/944
Collection: Papers of T. Heath and R.C. Heath as Under-Sheriff
Description: Miscellaneous administrative papers, including statement of numbers and categories of prisoners in Warwick Gaol
Dates: 1835
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 24/h/i/592
Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Annual returns, giving the numbers of prisoners, debtors etc, their employment, average weekly, cost of maintenance etc
Dates: 1823-1861
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 43/1-6
Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Quarter Sessions orders of the Court. Contain material relevant to the administration of the county prisons
Dates: 1841-1905
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 24/h/i/590
Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions
Description: General annual reports, founded on the reports of the Visiting Justices and the Chaplain, submitted to each Michaelmas Sessions
Dates: 1828-1856, 1840, 1846, 1849, 1851-1854
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 2/1/1-3
Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Reports of Visiting Justices to the County Prison. Reports of the Prison Governor, Chaplain, and Surgeon. Also, Prison Governors' certificates that Prison rules have been observed. There are gaps in the series of reports from the Prison Officers.
Dates: 1843-1897
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 24/h/i/582
Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Account of the total expenses incurred in building up and furnishing the Gaol and House of Correction
Dates: 1800-1831
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 24/h/i/591
Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Treasurer's annual statements of the disbursements at the County Gaol
Dates: 1850-1860
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 90/7
Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Accounts for the prosecution and maintenance costs of Birmingham Borough prisoners in the County Gaol
Dates: 1839-1842
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 3/c/iv/15
Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Advertisement for Chaplain to Warwick Gaol
Dates: 1850
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 3/c/i/10
Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Applications and advertisements for governorship of County Gaol and House of Correction, Warwick and Coventry Gaol and House of Correction
Dates: 1826-1854
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: CR1596/Box 85/1 and Box 87/14
Collection: None
Description: Papers in the case against Keeper of Gaol at Warwick for allowing a prisoner out of the Prison
Dates: 1806
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 3/c/iii/14
Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Appointment of Clerk to the Governor, Storekeeper etc
Dates: 1842
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 3/c/ii/11
Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Advertisement for the election of a Surgeon to the Warwick Gaol and House of Correction
Dates: 1836
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 3/c/ii/12
Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Advertisement for Surgeons to County Gaol, with list of candidates and name of appointee
Dates: 1851
Archive name: Birmingham Archives & Collections
Catalogue ref: MS 1036
Collection: Birmingham Quarter Sessions
Description: Printed list of sentences of prisoners committed to the County Gaol of Warwick
Dates: 1847
Archive name: Birmingham Archives & Collections
Catalogue ref: MS 3069/Acc1907-006/202574-20258, 202582
Collection: Papers of W. B. Bickley
Description: Lists of prisoners in Warwick Gaol
Dates: 1819-1820, 1839
Archive name: Birmingham Archives & Collections
Catalogue ref: MS 3375/2/1788
Collection: None
Description: List by Sheriff of the County of Warwick, of all prisoners in his custody, writs, records, books and other matters appertaining to the office of Sheriff. Made out at the expiration of his office and delivered to the incoming Sheriff.
Dates: 1854
Archive name: Birmingham Archives & Collections
Catalogue ref: MS 3375/2/1789
Collection: None
Description: List by Sheriff of the County of Warwick, of all prisoners in his custody, writs, records, books and other matters appertaining to the office of Sheriff. Made out at the expiration of his office and delivered to the incoming Sheriff.
Dates: 1855
Archive name: Birmingham Archives & Collections
Catalogue ref: MS 1816/1
Collection: None
Description: Letters to parents of Samuel Underhill while awaiting transportation in Warwick Gaol
Dates: 1849
Archive name: Birmingham Archives & Collections
Catalogue ref: MS 1834
Collection: None
Description: Papers of John Collins, Chartist, who was imprisoned in Warwick Gaol
Dates: 1839-1840
Archive name: Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre
Catalogue ref: BC79/27/11
Collection: Belmont Phillipps collection
Description: Copy of correspondence relating to the treatment of William Lovett and John Colling, prisoners in Warwick Gaol
Dates: 1840
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: CR 611/78/38-42
Collection: None
Description: Papers chiefly relating to the bankruptcy of Thomas Bissell, including material relating to his committal to the County Prison
Dates: 1822-1823
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: CR1596/box 92/1/2
Collection: None
Description: Schedules of prisoners at Warwick Gaol
Dates: 1818-1819
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: PH1035/A8775
Collection: None
Description: Sorrowful lamentation and confession of John Kington, a prisoner under sentence of death at Warwick Gaol, Warwick
Dates: 1859
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 24/h/i/585
Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Report of Captain Chesterton, Governor of the House of Correction at Cold Field Baths, upon his inspection of the Warwick Old Gaol and unsuitability of the buildings. He recommends an entirely new building on another site.
Dates: 1847
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 24/h/i/583
Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Reports of Committees etc upon the desirability of either enlarging the existing County Gaol or building a new one
Dates: 1844-1847
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: QS 24/h/i/584
Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Several plans, with report of the County Prison Committee thereon, for the proposed extension of the existing County Gaol
Dates: 1844-1847
Archive name: Essex Record Office
Catalogue ref: D/DFr F6
Collection: Maryon-Wilson family
Description: Journal of tour, with Lady Wilson of Charlton House, Kent, of Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Warwickshire. Entries include description of a visit to the Gaol at Warwick.
Dates: 1815