Ryton, tithe barn

HER Number:
13518

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Ryton, tithe barn

Place:
Ryton

Map Sheet:
NZ16SE

Class:
Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad:
Barn

Site Type: Specific:
Tithe Barn

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
The wall between the churchyard and former rectory is of some interest, incorporating the north wall of a building with a central pair of blocked doorways and three triangular vents to either side. This might conceivably have been a tithe barn {Peter Ryder 1993}.

Easting:
1510

Northing:
6480

Grid Reference:
NZ15106480

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Peter F. Ryder, 1993, The Church of the Holy Cross, Ryton (assessment for the Durham Diocesan Advisory Committee)