Tyne and Wear HER(6530): Newcastle, The Side, Cale Cross - Details
6530
Newcastle
Newcastle, The Side, Cale Cross
Newcastle
NZ26SE
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Cross
Medieval
C14
Documentary Evidence
Gray described the cross as having columns of hewn stone, covered with lead. On the top of cross was a cistern which held the New-Water. Milk, eggs, cheese and butter were sold here. The street in which the cross was situated was also called Cale Cross, so called because cale or broth was sold there. It is named in documents dating to the reigns of Edward III (1327-77) and Richard II (1377-99) - the account of St. Margaret's Chantry in the Church of St. Nicholas.
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6391
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H. Bourne, 1736, The History of Newcastle upon Tyne, p 60 and 123; W. Gray, 1649, Chorographia; J. Brand, 1789, The History of Newcastle; L. Wilkes and G. Dodds, 1964, Tyneside Classical - The Newcastle of Grainger, Dobson and Clayton; Tyne and Wear Council Council Museum, 1980, The Classical Tradition, p 10