Newcastle, Newgate Street, Earls Inn

HER Number:
6617

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Newgate Street, Earls Inn

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Inn

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Opposite to St Bartholomew's on the west side of Newgate Street, there was an ancient building with a large gate - a piece of stately workmanship. This was, according to Robert Shaftoe, recorder of the town, the House of the Earls of Northumberland, and was called the Earls Inn. Grey says it was called the Scotch Inn, because it was there that the Kings Nobility and Lards of Scotland lodged in the time of truce or league with England [there is a confusion here between the inn in Newgate Street and an innin Middle Street (HER 6596) called Scot's Inn].

Easting:
245

Northing:
643

Grid Reference:
NZ245643

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
H. Bourne, 1736, The History of Newcastle upon Tyne, p 51; Gray, 1649, Chorographia.