West Riding House of Correction at Wakefield

Overview

Details

Records

Overview

Alternative Names   Wakefield House of Correction, Wakefield County Gaol, Wakefield Prison, HMP Wakefield

Prison Type   Local Prison -  House of Correction/Bridewell

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   c1595 [1770]

Date closed   post 1900 (still open)

Location   Love Lane   Wakefield

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Yorkshire

Critical Remarks

Prison first opened in about 1595, but was entirely rebuilt in 1770.

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Wakefield House of Correction, Wakefield County Gaol, Wakefield Prison, HMP Wakefield

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   c1595 [1770]

Date closed   post 1900 (still open)

Location   Love Lane   Wakefield

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   53.6825  Long.   -1.509167

County   Yorkshire

Critical Remarks

Prison first opened in about 1595, but was entirely rebuilt in 1770.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   1998

Daily Greatest number   -   347

 

Year 1824

Annual Committed   -   1738

Daily Census   -   298

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   2043

Daily Census   -   383

 

Year 1833

Annual Committed   -   2862

Daily Census   -   476

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   3463

Daily Census   -   510

 

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   4990

Daily Census   -   711

 

Year 1848

Annual Confined   -   4435

Daily Daily average   -   521

 

Year 1853

Annual Confined   -   4954

Daily Daily average   -   591

 

Year 1858

Annual Committed   -   4445

Daily Daily average   -   764

 

Year 1863

Annual Committed   -   6112

Daily Greatest number   -   1128

 

Year 1868

Annual Committed   -   6627

Daily Daily average   -   1331

 

Year 1873

Annual Committed   -   8495

Daily Daily average   -   1163

 

Year 1878

Annual Committed   -   9840

Daily Daily average   -   1236

 

Year 1883

Annual Committed   -   8545

Daily Daily average   -   803

 

Year 1888

Annual Committed   -   7346

Daily Daily average   -   654

 

Year 1893

Annual Committed   -   7309

Daily   -  

 

Year 1898

Annual Committed   -   8837

Daily   -  

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.566
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.52
  • [Second] Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1820), p.54; 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.87; 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.69; 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.158; 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.163; 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.49
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1825, XXIII.1), p.314; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826, XXIV.1), p.300; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826-27, XIX.365), p.271; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1828, XX.327), p.312; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1829, XIX.1), p.280; Reports and Schedules Pursuant To Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830, XXIV.1), p.280; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830-31, XII.1), p.275; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1831-32. XXXIII.197), p.276; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.1), p.301; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1834, XLVI.1), p.287; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1835, XLIV.225), p.273; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1836, XLII.1), p.184; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837, XLV.1), p.186; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837-8, XLIII.227), p.187; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXXVIII.17), p.183; Reports Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.1), p.201; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1841, XVIII.1), p.214; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXXII.1), p.217; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1843, XLIII.1), p.214; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXXIX.403), p.210; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXXVII.417), p.248; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXXIV.187), p.256; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847, XLVII.297), p.258; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847-48, LII.465), p.266
  • Abstract Return of Establishment and Expenditure of Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.241), p.72
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837, XXXII.499), p.121; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern, Third Report (Parl. Papers, 1837-38, XXXI.1), p.105; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXII.1), p.120; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXI.1), p.47; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1843, XXV. & XXVI.249), p.148; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Tenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXIV.1), p.15; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Eleventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXI.483), p.42; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Northern District, Thirteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXVI.361), p.37; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Northern District, Fourteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1849, XXVI.167), p.57; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fifteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXVIII.291), p.69; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Sixteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1851, XXVII.461), p.77; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Seventeenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1852-53, LII.1), p.104; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Seventeenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1852-53, LII.1), p.69; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Nineteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1856, XXXIII.385), p.92; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Twentieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1857, Session 1, VII.313), p.76; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Twenty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1857, Session 2, XXIII.1), p.56; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Twenty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1857-58, XXIX.1), p.59; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Northern District, Twenty-third Report (Parl. Papers, 1857-58, XXIX.209), p.71; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Northern District, Twenty-fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1859, Session 1, XI.213), p.60; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Northern District, Twenty-fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1860, XXXV.381), p.43; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Northern District, Twenty-eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1863, XXIII.109), p.97; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirtieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1865, XXIII.257), p.115; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1866, XXXVII.233), p.121; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1867-68, XXXIV.1), p.117; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1871, XXIX.1), p.108; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1871, XXIX.529), p.168; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1872, XXXI.169), p.83; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1873, XXXII.337), p.164; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1874, XXIX.389), p.201; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1875, XXXVII.417), p.203; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Fortieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1876, XXXV.417), p.207; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Forty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1877, XLIII.421), p.204; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Forty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1878, XLI.417), p.203
  • Commissioners of Prisons, Second Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1878-79, XXXIV.1, 97), p.76; Commissioners of Prisons, Third Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1880, XXXV.1,73), p.101; Commissioners of Prisons, Fourth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1881, LI.441, 521), p.100; Commissioners of Prisons, Fifth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1882, XXXIII.443, 541), p.108; Commissioners of Prisons, Sixth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1883, XXXI.445, 579), p.112; Commissioners of Prisons, Seventh Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1884, XLII.461, 551), p.108; Commissioners of Prisons, Eighth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1884-85, XXXVII.527, 651), p.107; Commissioners of Prisons, Ninth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1886, XXXV.1, 93), p.103; Commissioners of Prisons, Tenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1887, XLI.203, 335), p.99; Commissioners of Prisons, Eleventh Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1888, LVIII.1, 209), p.87; Commissioners of Prisons, Twelfth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1889, XLI.1, 181), p.96; Commissioners of Prisons, Thirteenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1890, XXXVII.1, 183), p.96; Commissioners of Prisons, Fourteenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1890-91, XLIII.1, 125), p.89; Commissioners of Prisons, Fifteenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1892, XLII.1, 147), p.87; Commissioners of Prisons, Sixteenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1893-94, XLVII.1, 121), p.86; Commissioners of Prisons, Seventeenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1894, XLIV.1, 183), p.84; Commissioners of Prisons, Eighteenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1895, LVI.727, 865), p.89
  • Report of Coms. of Prisons and Directors of Convict Prisons, 1895-96 (Parl. Papers, 1896, XLIV.235), p.213; Report of Coms. of Prisons and Directors of Convict Prisons, 1896-97 (Parl. Papers, 1897, XL.105), p.360; Report of Coms. of Prisons and Directors of Convict Prisons, 1897-98 (Parl. Papers, 1898, XLVII.23), p.407; Report of Coms. of Prisons and Directors of Convict Prisons, 1898-99 (Parl. Papers, 1899, XLIII.65), p.431; Report of Coms. of Prisons and Directors of Convict Prisons, 1899-1900 (Parl. Papers, 1900, XLI.1), p.478

Additional Primary Sources

  • Edward Baines, History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York, Volume I: West Riding (Leeds, 1822), p. 424

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1145731; http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb201-c000118

Management

Archive name: Sheffield City Archives

Catalogue ref: WWM/F/122/53

Collection: Wentworth Woodhouse muniments

Description: Resolutions of the Michaelmas Quarter Sessions at Wakefield on a Report on the Wakefield House of Correction

Dates: 1819


Archive name: Sheffield City Archives

Catalogue ref: WWM/F/61/1

Collection: Wentworth Woodhouse muniments

Description: Letter about the state of the House of Correction at Wakefield

Dates: 1817


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale

Catalogue ref: KM/A/1554

Collection: Muniments of Kirklees and the Armytage family

Description: Material relating to Wakefield House of Correction

Dates: c.1817-1834


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale

Catalogue ref: KM/A/1557, KE/14

Collection: Muniments of Kirklees and the Armytage family

Description: Letters concerning a proposed visitation of Wakefield House of Correction, and concerning matters there at the time of the cholera epidemic

Dates: 1833-1836


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale

Catalogue ref: KM/A/1560

Collection: Muniments of Kirklees and the Armytage family

Description: Printed matter concerning prisons, courts etc

Dates: 1827-1836


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: C1128/1

Collection: None

Description: Worksheet, account of work undertaken

Dates: 1881


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: C118/A/Box2

Collection: Wakefield Prison

Description: Commissioners and Inspectors' Minute Book

Dates: 1879-1979


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QC2/7

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Trade committee minute book

Dates: 1860-1878


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QD1/237

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Resolutions, correspondence etc concerning 1823 Gaol Act

Dates: 1824


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QD1/239

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Statistics on number of appeals, prosecutions, prisoners, costs etc

Dates: 1835-1841


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QD1/244

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Correspondence about dietaries; statement of number of prisoners in custody in the House of Correction; accounts of disbursements on repairs etc for the House of Correction

Dates: 1847-1849


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QD1/245

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Statement of prisoners' earnings (1839-1849)

Dates: 1839-1850


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QD1/251

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Statement of prisoners' earnings in the House of Correction (1837-1854). Also, resolutions and correspondence about supply of flour to the House of Correction (1855).

Dates: 1837-1855


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QD1/379-384

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Papers relating to outbreak of enteric fever

Dates: 1875


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QD1/624

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Amended order in Council regarding commitment of prisoners to appear at the Assizes

Dates: 1867


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QD2

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Treasurer's accounts. Includes reports of the Committees, and copies of orders on county administration.

Dates: 1802-1889


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QD4/122-126

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Purchase of machinery for making aerated bread

Dates: 1864-1866


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QD4/128-142

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Contracts for the maintenance of prisoners committed by other authorities to the West Riding

Dates: 1837-1867


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QS1/139-238

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Quarter Sessions rolls, including signed reports of the Committees and the Riding Officers. These cover matters relating to decisions about building, opening new gaols, officials' reports, returns, staffing appointments etc.

Dates: 1800-1899


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QS10/35-60

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Order Books. Contain material relating to the administration of Wakefield House of Correction

Dates: 1799-1866


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QT1/3/110-112

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Parliamentary returns for the House of Correction

Dates: 1815-1860


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QT1/3/32-44

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: House of Correction, including accounts, correspondence, rules and regulations, contracts, estimates etc

Dates: c.1700-1878


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QD1/385

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Schedule of books and plans belonging to H. M. Prison at the office of the Clerk of the Peace

Dates: c.1880


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale

Catalogue ref: KM/A/1559

Collection: Muniments of Kirklees and the Armytage family

Description: Papers concerning Wakefield House of Correction, including copies of Visiting Justices' reports, correspondence, letter about the cycloped, and printed rules

Dates: 1834-1836, 1852


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QC2/1-2

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Visiting Justices' minute books

Dates: 1834-1878


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QC2/3-5

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Visiting Justices' order books

Dates: 1858-1878


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QD1/254

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Report of the Visiting Justices of the Wakefield House of Correction

Dates: 1859


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QD4/226

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Copy resolution of the Visiting Justices of the prison to oppose the clause in the Bill proposing to make the prison liable to rating

Dates: 1876


Finance

Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QD3/1-4

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: 2 general account books containing itemised statements of proposed expenditure on bridges and public buildings, including Houses of Correction, which were submitted to the Quarter Sessions for approval

Dates: 1797-c.1887


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QD4/121

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Correspondence and papers regarding raising loan for the enlargement of the House of Correction

Dates: 1843-1844


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: WDP20/8/9/3

Collection: Darrington with Wentbridge parish records

Description: Receipts from Wakefield House of Correction for various persons handed to that institution

Dates: 1803-1820


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: WMT/PO/4/27/15

Collection: Pontefract Borough

Description: Invoice relating to an instalment for a loan regarding the House of Correction

Dates: 1851-1858


Daily Business

Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QD1/228

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Inventory of clothing belonging to the House of Correction and memoranda concerning manufacture of goods by prisoners

Dates: 1809


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: C118/A/Box4

Collection: Wakefield Prison

Description: Visitors' book

Dates: 1874-1985


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QC2/6

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Visiting book (visiting magistrates and others, with remarks)

Dates: 1834-1873


Staff

Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: C118/78/1-2

Collection: Wakefield Prison

Description: Registers of Officers

Dates: 1840-1913


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QD1/359-361

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Lists of staff

Dates: 1865, 1877-1880


Archive name: Sheffield City Archives

Catalogue ref: SpSt/60611

Collection: Spencer Stanhope muniments

Description: Correspondence concerning applications for the Governorship of Wakefield gaol

Dates: 1864


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale

Catalogue ref: KM/B/916

Collection: Muniments of Kirklees and the Armytage family

Description: Testimonials of Captain Godfrey Armytage to perform office of Governor of Wakefield House of Correction, with letters

Dates: 1864


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QD1/363-365

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Material regarding appointments of Governor (1816, 1864), salaries of Governor of Wakefield and other prisons (1870)

Dates: 1816, 1864, 1870


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QD1/366-373

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Duties, appointments etc of surgeon

Dates: 1828-1858, 1875


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QD1/354

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Copy orders of quarter sessions concerning the House of Correction. Includes report of committee appointed to consider officers' salaries etc (1861)

Dates: 1860-1865


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QD1/362

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Petition regarding pensions from retired prison officers

Dates: 1895


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QD1/377

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Letter of application for Taskmaster

Dates: 1806


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QD4/127

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Draft bond of Henry Oxley for the performance of the office of Steward of the House of Correction

Dates: 1872


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QD1/378

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Letter from the Home Office to the Deputy Clerk of the Peace re salaries paid to the Principal Warder and Trade Instructor

Dates: 1850


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QD1/374-376

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Appointment of Chaplain, list of books for prisoners

Dates: 1850-1864


Prisoners

Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: HO23/14-20

Collection: Home Office

Description: Registers of Prisoners from national prisons lodged in County Prisons, Wakefield

Dates: 1847-1866


Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: PCOM2/411

Collection: Prison Commission

Description: Wakefield Gaol, Yorkshire: register of prisoners

Dates: 1856


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: C118/103

Collection: Wakefield Prison

Description: Register of military prisoners sentenced by courts martial throughout the country

Dates: 1871-1875


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: C118/104-108

Collection: Wakefield Prison

Description: Indexes to nominal register

Dates: c.1878-1899


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: C118/109-110, 112-114, 116-164

Collection: Wakefield Prison

Description: Nominal registers

Dates: 1879-1900


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: C118/227-238

Collection: Wakefield Prison

Description: Register of female prisoners

Dates: 1883-1900


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: C118/98

Collection: Wakefield Prison

Description: Register of male and female prisoners

Dates: 1800-1808


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: C1303

Collection: None

Description: Convicts reception register. Details of prisoners received at Wakefield prison temporarily to be shipped elsewhere.

Dates: 1858-1862


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: D258/21/25/1

Collection: Gell of Hopton Hall, Yorkshire Quarter Sessions

Description: List of prisoners committed for trial in the West Riding

Dates: 1833


Archive name: Sheffield City Archives

Catalogue ref: SpSt/60722/17

Collection: Spencer Stanhope muniments

Description: A liberate of the prisoners at Wakefield

Dates: 1827


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: C118/ 99-100

Collection: Wakefield Prison

Description: General receiving books of male and female prisoners

Dates: 1842-1843


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: C118/101

Collection: Wakefield Prison

Description: Debtors' receiving book

Dates: 1847-1849


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QT3/3/4

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Statement of the prisoners committed to the West Riding House of Correction

Dates: 1828


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: WDP139/7/8/69

Collection: Darrington with Wentbridge parish records

Description: Letter from Samual Walker of Wakefield House of Correction, asking to be liberated

Dates: c.1800-1825


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: WWD1/Box 211/K 79

Collection: City of Wakefield Corporation

Description: Wakefield prisoners

Dates: 1879-1880


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: Z169/14-17

Collection: None

Description: Photographs of prisoners at Wakefield Prison

Dates: c.1800-2000


Land & Buildings

Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: PCOM7/147

Collection: Prison Commission

Description: Land. Wakefield Prison: Coalmining under adjacent land

Dates: 1887-1898


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Bradford

Catalogue ref: 11D74/3/90/1

Collection: None

Description: Survey of land purchased to enlarge the House of Correction at Wakefield, with plan

Dates: 1800


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: C118/68-70

Collection: Wakefield Prison

Description: Engineer's day books

Dates: 1886-1890


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: C118/71

Collection: Wakefield Prison

Description: Book recording the names and trades of workmen and the hours spent on each job

Dates: 1886-1891


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: C1358/614-615

Collection: Pilkington papers

Description: Papers relating to Wakefield House of Correction, including plans for a pump and filter tank plans for cell windows, a printed report to the Local Government Board on an outbreak of enteric fever, with a plan of the Jail and graph. Also, plan of a cornmill.

Dates: 1821-1875


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: C861

Collection: Wakefield Museum document collection

Description: Plan of Old Manor Prison, Wakefield

Dates: 1901


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QD1/257

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Report of the Repairs Committee for the West Riding House of Correction

Dates: 1865


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QD1/697

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Design of Thomas Wright of Manchester for additions to the House of Correction

Dates: 1819


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QD3/376-477

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Plans of additions and alterations to the House of Correction (1824, 1837). Also, plans for a new prison (1840-1849), and for subsequent alterations and extensions (1797-1877).

Dates: 1797-1877


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QD4/111-120

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Conveyancing papers

Dates: 1842-1870


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QD4/275

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Correspondence regarding procuration charge by the Solicitor in respect of loan for new buildings at the House of Correction (1843)

Dates: 1844


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QD4/95-110

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: House of Correction building contracts

Dates: 1838-1867


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: WRD1, Boxes 47, 74 75, 76, 79, 85

Collection: West Riding County Council

Description: Deeds, contracts etc relating to prison land

Dates: 1772-1894


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield

Catalogue ref: QD1/238

Collection: West Riding Quarter Sessions

Description: Resolutions of Quarter Sessions about new buildings for the House of Correction (1840). With report of the Governor to the Visiting Justices (1839), printed report of the Visiting Justices of the House of Correction (1840), and printed report of Captain Jebb to the Home Secretary on sites for the new prison (1840).

Dates: 1839-1840