Newcastle town wall, postern of BVM Hospital

HER Number:
1519

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle town wall, postern of BVM Hospital

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Defence

Site Type: Broad:
Town Defences

Site Type: Specific:
Town Wall

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C13

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
By 1290 the foundations of the town wall had been begun through the grounds of the Hospital, so cutting it off from some of its buildings. The brethren thereupon petitioned the king to grant them permission to have a postern through the wall. Oliver's map of 1830 shows two small breaks in the wall, one on each side of West Spital Tower, but it is uncertain which (if either) was the Hospital's postern.

Easting:
2472

Northing:
6385

Grid Reference:
NZ24726385

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1519 >> Cal Pat Rolls, 1281-1292 388 J. Brand, 1789, History of Newcastle, I, 71 G.B. Richardson, 19th century, The Walls of Newcastle,109 -Newcastle University Library Unpublished MS W.H. Knowles, 1892, The Hospital of St. Mary the Virgin, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XV, 195 T.M. Richardson, 1880, Memorials of Old Newcastle, pl. xviii