Alternative Names Winchester County Bridewell, Winchester New Prison or County Bridewell
Prison Type Local Prison - House of Correction/Bridewell
Jurisdiction County
Date opened 1787
Date closed 1849
Location on site of Hyde Abbey Winchester
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Hampshire
Alternative Names Winchester County Bridewell, Winchester New Prison or County Bridewell
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction County
Date opened 1787
Date closed 1849
Location on site of Hyde Abbey Winchester
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 51.0675709 Long. -1.3152752
County Hampshire
Year 1818
Annual Committed - 562
Daily Greatest number - 185
Year 1824
Annual Committed - 538
Daily Census - 91
Year 1828
Annual Committed - 473
Daily Census - 473
Year 1833
Annual Committed - 804
Daily Census - 146
Year 1838
Annual Confined - 943
Daily Census - 140
Year 1843
Annual Confined - 1194
Daily Census - 111
Year 1848
Annual Confined - 739
Daily Daily average - 88
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: 92M95/F2/17/60
Collection: Baring (Northbook) family
Description: Letter from Sir Raymond Jarvis about Winchester Bridewell (Prisoners' earnings, turnkeys, conduct of governor)
Dates: c.1837
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: 92M95/F2/1/3-4
Collection: Baring (Northbook) family
Description: Letters, from Gatekeeper at the Winchester Bridewell, containing reports on the numbers, condition and employment of prisoners in the Winchester Bridewell.
Dates: 1817
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: 92M95/F2/3
Collection: Baring (Northbook) family
Description: New County Gaol, Winchester: bundle of correspondence, reports, memoranda and printed matter, Includes: Copy order of quarter sessions establishing New Gaol Committee, 1844; County Gaol statistics, 1825-1844; draft report of the New Gaol Committee; letter from Revd William Williams, vicar of St Bartholomew Hyde, concerning the moral character of Barber, the Bridewell keeper, 1839; letter from Sir William Heathcote about paying off the debt incurred in building new gaol, and other papers.
Dates: 1839-1844
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: 15M84/Z3/10
Collection: Wallop, Earls of Portsmouth
Description: Report of the Committee appointed to examine into the state of the Hampshire County Gaol and Bridewells, and to report on best mode of employing the prisoners, to recommend regulations
Dates: 1817
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: 38M49/A4/1
Collection: Wickham Family
Description: Report on the State of the Gaol and Bridewell at Hants Quarter Sessions, 1819
Dates: 1813-1820
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: 44M69/G3/979
Collection: Jervoise family of Herriard
Description: Printed report of the Committee appointed to examine into the state of the Hampshire County Gaol and Bridewells. Includes ground plans of the Gaol and Bridewell at Winchester
Dates: 1817
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: 92M95/F2/1/21
Collection: Baring (Northbook) family
Description: Letter from William Gover to Sir Thomas Baring including 'statement of the labour and the profit on the amount of materials used by the prisoners' , enclosing memorandum of the number of sacks of wheat and Barley ground at the Bridewell
Dates: 1822
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: 92M95/F2/1/44-45
Collection: Baring (Northbook) family
Description: Letters from B. Herring to Sir Thomas Baring concerning the employment of prisoners at the County Bridewell in Winchester, particularly relating to the use of mills (18 February 1828)Â
Dates: 1828
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: 92M95/F2/17/22
Collection: Baring (Northbook) family
Description: Letter from Sir Raymond Jarvis, with a report of an inspection of Winchester Bridewell carried out by Jarvis (incomplete), including statistics and observations about methods of employment.Â
Dates: 1832
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: 92M95/F2/17/25
Collection: Baring (Northbook) family
Description: Letter from Sir Raymond Jarvis, seeking advice over the enforced silence amongst prisoners at Winchester Bridewell. Gives example of Brixton House of Correction.Â
Dates: 1835
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: 92M95/F2/19/169-170
Collection: Baring (Northbook) family
Description: Letters from Elizabeth Fry to Sir Thomas Baring concerning county prisons in Winchester
Dates: 1831-1834
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: Q13/1/1
Collection: Hampshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Book containing 'Proceedings of Bridewell Committee'
Dates: 1811-1816
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: Q13/1/2
Collection: Hampshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Book entiled 'Report on Winchester Gaol'. Contains depositions and examinations; plan
Dates: 1816-1817
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: Q28/4/6
Collection: Hampshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Notebook containing copies of orders of Quarter Sessions. Arranged alphabetically by subject, which include: Bridewell and Gaol. Most of the orders relate to procedure, appointments etc.
Dates: 1766-1832
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: TOP343/1/185
Collection: Hampshire Topographical Collection
Description: Report of the Committee appointed to examine into the state of the Hampshire County Gaol and Bridewells,to report on best mode of employing the prisoners, to recommend regulations
Dates: 1817
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: Q1/31, 33
Collection: Hampshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Quarter Sessions Order Books, including reports of Visiting Justices on County Gaol and Bridewell, rules and regulations for both
Dates: 1817-1822
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: Q10/6/1-6
Collection: Hampshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Bridewells and vagrants account books
Dates: 1715-1861
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: Q10/1/3
Collection: Hampshire Quarter Sessions
Description: General account book. Money from the sale of flour bran etc produced by prisoners. and money from the parish of Alton for purchase of a saw mill from the Visiting Justices of the County Bridewell (Epiphany 1824).Â
Dates: 1824-1843
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: Q13/2/7-8
Collection: Hampshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Chaplain's Journals
Dates: 1820-1854
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: Q13/2/12
Collection: Hampshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Journals of the Governor of the County Bridewell
Dates: 1820-1852
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: 12M60/84
Collection: Compton of Minstead
Description: Notebook of Henry Combe Compton MP, contains list of officers of new prison and old prison.
Dates: 1849-1850
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: 21M65/E6/13/155
Collection: Winchester Diocese
Description: Copy curate's licence: Robert John William Wright, Chaplain of the Gaol and Bridewell at Winchester
Dates: 1836
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: 117M89W/12
Collection: None
Description: Probate copy will and codicil of Richard Page, Keeper of the County Bridewell (dated 27 August)
Dates: 1814-1815
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: 21M65/E6/13/317
Collection: Winchester Diocese
Description: Copy Curate's licence - Thomas Lawes Shapcott, Bridewell
Dates: 1840
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: 92M95/F2/17/20-21
Collection: Baring (Northbook) family
Description: Letter from Sir Raymond Jarvis, concerning misconduct of the turnkeys at Winchester Bridewell and staff appointments
Dates: 1832
Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
Catalogue ref: 92M95/F2/19/263
Collection: Baring (Northbook) family
Description: Letter from Colonel Clive concerning men imprisoned in the Winchester Bridewell for military offences
Dates: 1844