Offerton, well of St. Cuthbert

HER Number:
350

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Offerton, well of St. Cuthbert

Place:
Offerton

Map Sheet:
NZ35NW

Class:
Water Supply and Drainage

Site Type: Broad:
Water Storage Site

Site Type: Specific:
Well

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
The inclusion of this well, and the associated chapel (HER no. 349), on the HER depends solely on a single reference in an "antient deed" in the possession of the 19th century antiquarian John Hodgson, and cited by him in a footnote. "An antient deed...by which William Basset conveyed to John de Staindrop, called the Coroner, a messuage and lands in Offerton, in the county of Durham, mentions 'the chapel of the blessed Cuthbert in Vfferton', and 'the well of St.Cuthbert' in that village". There is no trace on the ground and no local tradition for the well.

Easting:
34

Northing:
55

Grid Reference:
NZ3455

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 350 >> J. Hodgson, 1832, History of Northumberland, Part II, Vol. II, p. 132 Revd. P.B.G. Binnall & M.H. Dodds, 1947, Holy Wells in Northumberland and Durham, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, X (for 1942-46), p. 84 Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, ISS, 1978, Possible Med. Holy Well and chapel