Winchester City Bridewell

Overview

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Overview

Alternative Names   Winchester City Gaol and Bridewell

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol, Lock Up

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1800

Date closed   [1838]

Location   lower part of High Street   Winchester

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Hampshire

Critical Remarks

By 1838 this prison had been converted into a police station.

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Winchester City Gaol and Bridewell

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1800

Date closed   [1838]

Location   lower part of High Street   Winchester

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   51.062065  Long.   -1.3133657

County   Hampshire

Critical Remarks

By 1838 this prison had been converted into a police station.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   2

Daily Greatest number   -   3

 

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   22

Daily Greatest number   -   7

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.585
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.20
  • 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.34; 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.41
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.119
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 2 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIII.133), p.905
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837, XXXII.1), p.49; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District. First Report (Parl. Papers, 1836, XXXV.269), p.18; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXII.217), p.100

Additional Primary Sources

  • William White, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (Sheffield, 1859), p. 64.

Management

Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: W/J4/3

Collection: Winchester City Archives

Description: Act of Parliament and petitions, letters etc, relative to removal of the ruinous prison of the City from the street in the now Broadway

Dates: 1798-1801


Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: W/J4/4

Collection: Winchester City Archives

Description: Bundle of papers sewn together relating to the Gaol

Dates: 1799-1801


Finance

Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: W/J4/10

Collection: Winchester City Archives

Description: Bill for £175-15-11.5d incurred by the City for work done by Henry Lucas in pulling down the old Bridewell and building a new one 

Dates: 1799-1801


Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: W/J4/17

Collection: Winchester City Archives

Description: Bridewell account

Dates: 1835


Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: W/J4/9-16

Collection: Winchester City Archives

Description: Winchester Gaol Commissioners' papers relating to the New Bridewell rate and liability of costs for maintaining the prison, resolutions of ratepayers etc

Dates: 1801-1832


Land & Buildings

Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: W/F1/28/2

Collection: Winchester City Archives

Description: Premises in the Broadway, Winchester. Assignment of remainder of term of 1000 years so that the premises maybe demolished and the area cleared for the new Gaol.

Dates: 1802


Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: W/J4/5

Collection: Winchester City Archives

Description: Letter from J. R. (presumably John Ridding to the Mayor?) concerning demolition of houses to make approach to new Gaol more commodious 

Dates: 1801