North Weetslade chapel

HER Number:
787

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
North Weetslade chapel

Place:
Weetslade

Map Sheet:
NZ27SE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific:
Chapel

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C13

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Late 13th century references in the assize rolls to an action between the rector of Benton and the chaplain of North Weetslade provide just enough documentary evidence to show that there was a medieval chapel here. There was no incumbent "in the free chapel of Weetslade" in 1548, and in c. 1715 Warburton wrote, "Witchled...where formerly was an old chapel". The site is unknown.

Easting:
262

Northing:
737

Grid Reference:
NZ262737

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 787 >> J.C. Hodgson, 1916, Notices of Ruined Towers, Chapels etc. in Northumberland, circa 1715, Archaeologia Aeliana, 3, XIII, 5 M.H. Dodds, ed. 1930, North Weetslade Chapel, Northumberland County History, XIII, 405-06