Newcastle, Black Friars' well

HER Number:
1434

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Black Friars' well

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Water Supply and Drainage

Site Type: Broad:
Water Storage Site

Site Type: Specific:
Well

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C13

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
In 1263 the king confirmed an earlier grant to the friars of the aqueduct which they had "brought from a well without their court to their house and thence to the said town" since it would be for the improvement of the whole town. The location of the well and aqueduct is uncertain, though it is likely that the former lay to the north or north-west of the friary buildings, even outside the later town wall, and it is possible that the aqueduct was seen during the digging of trial pits in the cemetery north of the church.

Easting:
24

Northing:
64

Grid Reference:
NZ2464

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1434 >> Calendar Patent Rolls, 1258-66, 298 J. Brand, 1789, History of Newcastle, I, 124n Rev. C.F.R. Palmer, 1878, The Friar-Preachers, or Blackfriars, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, The Reliquary, XVIII, 71-2 W.H. Knowles, 1921, Monastery of the Black Friars, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Archaeologia Aeliana, 3, XVII, 316 J. Nolan, 1988, Cemetery trial pits - Black Friars