Spital Tongues, Hospital of the Holy Jesus

HER Number:
16615

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Spital Tongues, Hospital of the Holy Jesus

Place:
Spital Tongues

Map Sheet:
NZ26NW

Class:
Health and Welfare

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Almshouse

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Shown on the Ordnance Survey plan of 1939. The brick single storey almshouses, to the north of what was then St. Mary Magdalene Home, have a cloister layout. In 1959 38 detached brown brick and render bungalows with pitched concrete roofs, were added, replacing the workers terraces north of Hunter's Road.

Easting:
2358

Northing:
6566

Grid Reference:
NZ23586566

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
North of England Civic Trust, February 2009, Spital Tongues, Newcastle upon Tyne - Suggested Conservation Area Scoping Study, Draft Report, p 11