Warwick County House of Correction

Overview

Details

Records

Overview

Alternative Names   Warwick County Bridewell, Warwick House of Correction

Prison Type   Local Prison -  House of Correction/Bridewell

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 Info

Alternative Names   Warwick County Bridewell, Warwick House of Correction

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.   52.283241  Long.   -1.59043

County   Warwickshire

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   823

Daily Greatest number   -   199

 

Year 1823

Annual Committed   -   700

Daily Census   -   700

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   732

Daily Census   -   168

 

Year 1833

Annual Committed   -   1033

Daily Census   -   164

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   1322

Daily Census   -   184

 

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   1400

Daily Census   -   255

 

Year 1848

Annual Confined   -   1973

Daily Daily average   -   266

 

Year 1853

Annual Confined   -   701

Daily Daily average   -   88

 

Year 1858

Annual Committed   -   404

Daily Daily average   -   103

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.572
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.48
  • 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.78; 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.114; 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.144; 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.151; 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.44
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1824, XIX.359), p.232; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1825, XXIII.1), p.282; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826, XXIV.1), p.272; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826-27, XIX.365), p.250; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1828, XX.327), p.286; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1829, XIX.1), p.254; Reports and Schedules Pursuant To Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830, XXIV.1), p.253; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830-31, XII.1), p.249; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1831-32. XXXIII.197), p.249; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.1), p.275; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1834, XLVI.1), p.262; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1835, XLIV.225), p.249; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1836, XLII.1), p.168; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837, XLV.1), p.169; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837-8, XLIII.227), p.171; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXXVIII.17), p.168; Reports Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.1), p.185; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1841, XVIII.1), p.197; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXXII.1), p.201; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1843, XLIII.1), p.200; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXXIX.403), p.193; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXXVII.417), p.228; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXXIV.187), p.231; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847, XLVII.297), p.237; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847-48, LII.465), p.243
  • Abstract Return of Establishment and Expenditure of Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.241), p.64
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District. First Report (Parl. Papers, 1836, XXXV.269), p.72; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXII.217), p.156; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1841 Session 2, V.177), p.44; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXIX.391), p.436; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Eleventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXI.565), p.413; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Twelfth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXV.1), p.409; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland and Eastern District, Fourteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1849, XXVI.1), p.68; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Seventeenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1852, XXIV.1), p.24; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Nineteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1854, XXXIV.1), p.114; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Twenty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1856, XXXIII.485), p.83; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-third Report (Parl. Papers, 1859, Session 1, XI.1), p.138; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1860, XXXV.1), p.122; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1860, XXXV.229), p.124; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1861, XXIX.45), p.127

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol8/pp447-451

Management

Archive name: Nottinghamshire Archives

Catalogue ref: C/QACP/5/4/387-8

Collection: Nottinghamshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Letter from Chairman of Committee of Warwickshire JPs, with details of committal of prisoners and indemnities to Governor of House of Correction and High Sheriff

Dates: 1838


Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office

Catalogue ref: QS 24/h/ii/595

Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Annual returns, giving numbers of prisoners, their employment and earnings etc

Dates: 1828-1859


Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office

Catalogue ref: QS 24/h/ii/596

Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Presentments to Quarter Sessions upon insufficiency of the House of Correction

Dates: 1823-1853


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 92/b/8

Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Return of the number of prisoners received in the House of Correction from the County Gaol, and under commitment

Dates: 1816-1818


Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office

Catalogue ref: QS 92/b/9

Collection: Warwickshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Return of monies earned by prisoners in the House of Correction for heading pins, grinding corn, and the worsted manufactory shewing the profits etc

Dates: 1816-1818


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


Finance

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


Staff

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


Prisoners

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