Jarrow, ?Dominican Priory
Jarrow, ?Dominican Priory
HER Number
1231
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Jarrow, ?Dominican Priory
Place
Jarrow
Map Sheet
NZ36NW
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Religious House
Site Type: Specific
Dominican Nunnery
General Period
MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Medieval 1066 to 1540
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
It is extremely doubtful if this priory ever really existed. There is only one known reference, in 1329, to the Friars Preachers of Jarrow, when Edward III pardoned them the sum of 12 marks. It is thought likely that this reference was to the priory at Yarm
Easting
433895
Northing
565236
Grid Reference
NZ433895565236
Sources
<< HER 1231 >> M.E. Cornford in W. Page, ed. 1907, Religious Houses, Victoria County History, Durham, II, 110-11
M.D. Knowles & R.N.Hadcock, 1953, Medieval Religious Houses England and Wales, 185
M.D. Knowles & R.N.Hadcock, 1953, Medieval Religious Houses England and Wales, 185