Heaton, chapel

HER Number:
1398

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Heaton, chapel

Place:
Heaton

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific:
Chapel

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C13

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
A document from the reign of Edward I refers to "a chapel anciently at Heaton, which in the year 1299 was honoured with the presence of King Edward I to hear a boy bishop perform the vespers of St. Nicholas therein, on the 7th day of December that year...". There is no record of a building and no known site, though it has been suggested that it was probably near Adam of Jesmond's house.

Easting:
26744

Northing:
65666

Grid Reference:
NZ2674465666

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1398 >> J. Brand, 1789, History of Newcastle, I, 442n E. Mackenzie, 1827, View of Newcastle, I, 150 TW.H. Knowles & J.R. Boyle, 1890, Vestiges of Old Newcastle and Gateshead, 136