Newcastle, All Saints Street (All Hallows Gate Silver Street)

HER Number:
6564

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, All Saints Street (All Hallows Gate Silver Street)

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Transport

Site Type: Broad:
Road Transport Site

Site Type: Specific:
Road

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C13

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
One of the minor medieval streets linking the three main routes through the town. Bourne identifies the street running along the north side of All Saints churchyard, from Pilgrim Street to Pandon, as the medieval All Saints or All Hallows Street. Known as Silver Street in the 17th century. Other alternative names - Temple Gate (from 1220 to 1227 according to Bourne) and Jew Gate (in 14th century according to Bourne).

Easting:
2519

Northing:
6401

Grid Reference:
NZ25196401

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
H. Bourne, 1736, History of Newcastle, p 108; B. Harbottle and P. Clack, 1976, Newcastle upon Tyne: Archaeology and Development, in D.W. Harding (ed), 1976, Archaeology in the North; W. Gray, 1649, Chorographia, p 71; J. Brand, 1789, History of Newcastle upon Tyne, Vol I, p 359; Jack and John Leslie, 2002, Bygone Quayside and the Chares