Tynemouth, St. Leonard's Hospital, grave slab and coffins

HER Number:
7294

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Tynemouth, St. Leonard's Hospital, grave slab and coffins

Place:
Tynemouth

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Funerary Site

Site Type: Specific:
Coffin

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
Grave slab and coffins. Medieval. Sandstone slab with matrices for one male, one female figures and at their feet for five smaller figures, the central one female. Two stone coffins to north and south. Modern iron railing around slab. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
3611

Northing:
6929

Grid Reference:
NZ36116929

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 8/98; H.E. Craster, 1907, History of Northumberland, Vol VIII, pp 259-260; S.S. Carr, 1904, The Early Monumental Remains of Tynemouth, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XXV, pp. 130-131