Newcastle, Castle Garth, Half Moon Battery

HER Number:
6541

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Castle Garth, Half Moon Battery

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Multiple Dwelling

Site Type: Specific:
Tenement Block

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C17

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Half Moon Battery was a speculative development of semi-circular brick-built range of one-roomed tenements, with wooden galleries at the first floor encircling the whole. Nolan suggests that these were used for single men, perhaps journeymen, labourers or incomers to town. Part of the outer mantle of the Garth below the Half Moon collapsed in several places damaging or destroying a number of properties at the Bridge End and at Sandhill. The west of the Half Moon Battery was built by John Bowles and Alexander Young in the 17th century and remodelled after 1750. Access to it was called Half Moon Entry.

Easting:
25122

Northing:
63878

Grid Reference:
NZ2512263878

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
J. Nolan, 1990, The Castle of Newcastle upon Tyne after 1600, Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 5, Vol XV; W. Collard and M. Ross, 1842, Architectural and Picturesque Views in Newcastle upon Tyne, p 24