Farnacres chantry chapel

HER Number:
691

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Farnacres chantry chapel

Place:
Farnacres

Map Sheet:
NZ25NW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Chapel

Site Type: Specific:
Chantry chapel

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C15

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
A chantry was founded in Farnacres chapel in 1429 by Sir Robert Umfravill, who endowed it with the whole vill and manor of Farnacres. Two chaplains were to have bed and board constantly under the roof of the chantry, and a set of statutes was provided. Whether a chapel existed before the foundation of the chantry is unknown. In 1439 the hospital of Friarside was united to it; the last appointment of a chaplain occurred in 1538. After the Dissolution it was granted, in 1548, to Alexander Pringell, reverting to the Crown in 1594, and in 1605 Urias Babington died seised of the capital messuage or site of the chantry in trust for the junior Liddell family. It was later reported that, "the chapel stood about one hundred yards to the south of the hall. When the ruins were removed, a number of trees were planted to indicate where the chapel stood. The pedestrian can see them from the carriage drive, in the form of a square". Its site is now close to or under the Western Bypass.

Easting:
2394

Northing:
5989

Grid Reference:
NZ23945989

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 691 >> W. Hutchinson, 1787, History of...Durham, II, pp. 421-2 R. Surtees, 1820, History of...Durham, II, pp. 243-4 J.R. Boyle, 1892, The County of Durham, 593 W. Bourn, 1893, Whickham Parish, 89