Silksworth, Chapel of St. Leonard

HER Number:
221

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Silksworth, Chapel of St. Leonard

Place:
Silksworth

Map Sheet:
NZ35SE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific:
Chapel

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
The existence of the chapel is supported by a single published but undated charter in which John, son of Marmaduke, gave his relative John de Dalton, chaplain, land on the west side of the vill of Silksworth, next to the chapel of St. Leonard. The 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan includes "Chapel Garth Well" in the field immediately south of Silksworth village, but there is no other known evidence to support this name and location.

Easting:
375

Northing:
526

Grid Reference:
NZ375526

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 221 >> R. Surtees, 1972, History of...the County Palatine of Durham I (1816), p. 244 Ordnance Survey, 1854, 1st edition 1:2500, Durham XIV.9, Durham University Archives & Special Collection, J. Patterson, 1907, Silksworth and St. Leonard's Chapel,... Antiquities of Sunderland, VI (for 1905), pp. 4, 7-8