Newcastle, Cloth Market, New-water Cross

HER Number:
6522

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Cloth Market, New-water Cross

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Cross

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Towards the end of the Cloth Market was a large cross with a lead cistern at the top of it to hold water. It was called the Newe-water and was pulled down in around 1733.

Easting:
249

Northing:
640

Grid Reference:
NZ249640

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
H. Bourne, 1736, The History of Newcastle upon Tyne, p 55.