Monument record 0035001000 - ADJACENT TO COUNTY HALL
Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Map
Type and Period (1)
- PRISON (18th Century to 19th Century - 1737 AD? to 1844 AD)
Description
In 1737 an Act of Parliament allowed the JPs for Bucks to raise money for the completion of a new gaol & court-rooms in Aylesbury (B1).
The gaol, tread-mill etc were adjacent to County Hall; it remained on this site until the new County Gaol was opened in 1844 (B4). (For new Gaol see CASS 00452).
Description of prison, treadmill and accounts of management of prisoners (B9).
Buildings report dated Oct 1995 - Aug 1996 held at NMR (B11).
Sources (11)
- <1>SBC7626 Bibliographic reference: LIPSCOMB 2 PP27-28.
- <2>SBC14297 Bibliographic reference: SHEAHAN P75.
- <3>SBC5653 Bibliographic reference: Robert Gibbs. 1885. A History of Aylesbury. pp485-499.
- <4>SBC10109 Map: OS 1840 1:500 MAP.
- <5>SBC20462 Bibliographic reference: William Page (ed). 1925. A History of Buckinghamshire (Victoria County History) Volume III. Volume 3. pp1-2.
- <6>SBC1986 Bibliographic reference: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE- CALLENDAR TO THE SESSIONS RECORDS 1958 5 1718-1724 (PHOTOCOPY OF RELEVANT SECTION- .
- <7>SBC5192 Bibliographic reference: FARNELL M 1982 ACCOUNT BOOKS OF WILLIAM COOPER, MI LLWRIGHT OF AYLESBURY IN RECSOFBUCKS24PP118-124".
- <8>SBC12277 Bibliographic reference: PIPE ROLLS (PIPE ROLL SOC VOLS).
- <9>SBC3300 Article in serial: G R Crouch. 1927. 'The Building of the County Hall, Aylesbury', in Recs of Bucks Vol 12 Supplement ppi-xiv. Vol 12 No 1.
- <10>SBC23108 Bibliographic reference: Allan Brodie, Jane Groom & James O Davies. 2002. English Prisons: An Architectural History. p258.
- <11>SBC25317 Unpublished document: RCHME. 1996. Aylesbury County Gaol & House of Correction (National Monuments Record file no. 93731).
Location
Grid reference | SP 81986 13657 (point) |
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Civil Parish | AYLESBURY, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire |
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Record last edited
Aug 13 2022 1:25PM