Newcastle, Quayside, Trinity Chare

HER Number:
10489

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Quayside, Trinity Chare

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Transport

Site Type: Broad:
Road

Site Type: Specific:
Alley

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
The Quayside plateau has its origin in an episode of land reclamation in the 13th century. By the end of that century the arrangement of streets had been established and to a great extent that arrangement still survives. Buildings have been replaced at intervals on the same sites since the first houses of the 13th century. Presevation of 13th century buildings below ground is exceptionally good, with walls surviving to a height of some 2m. There were no minor streets or chares running off the Quayside before 1376, although the word "Key" is used four times from 1332 to 1366. From Sandhill to Sandgate there were 20 chares which survived until the mid C19. Most were so narrow that two people could not walk abreast. Their date of origin is unknown, earliest reference is C14.

Easting:
2539

Northing:
6392

Grid Reference:
NZ25396392

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
C.F. O'Brien, 1990, The Quayside (Trinity Chare); H. Bourne, 1736, The History of Newcastle upon Tyne; B. Harbottle and P. Clack, 1976, Newcastle upon Tyne - Archaeology and Development in D.W. Harding (ed), 1976, Archaeology in the North; W. Collard and M. Ross, 1842, Architectural and Picturesque Views in Newcastle upon Tyne; J. and J. Leslie, 2002, Bygone Quayside and the Chares