Newcastle town wall, Black Friars postern

HER Number:
1535

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle town wall, Black Friars postern

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:
Ruined Building

Description:
In 1280 the Dominican friars were given licence "to make a narrow gate through the new wall surrounding the said town, which will have to be made through the garden of the said friars, for ingress into the said garden,…on condition that the sheriff of Northumberland or the constable of the castle…may stop it when they please for a time". This postern survives, blocked on its east (inner) face in the late 19th century, in the curtain between Heber and Morden Towers. SCHEDULED ANCIENT MONUMENT

Easting:
2437

Northing:
6422

Grid Reference:
NZ24376422

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1535 >> Cal Pat Rolls, 1280 1272-1281 397 J. Brand, 1789, History of Newcastle, I, 2 and note c. R. Fraser in J. Nolan, etc. 1989, The Medieval Town Defences of Newcastle upon Tyne... Archaeologia Aeliana, 5, XVII, 54-5;