Tyne and Wear HER(707): Gateshead, St. Mary's Well - Details
707
Gateshead
Gateshead, St. Mary's Well
Gateshead
NZ26SE
Water Supply and Drainage
Water Storage Site
Well
Medieval
C14
Documentary Evidence
A single mention of this well has been recorded: "a tenement bounded on the south by a spring called St. Marywell" (1403).
2500
6300
NZ25006300
<< HER 707 >> R. Welford, 1884, History of Newcastle and Gateshead, I, p. 236
Rev. P.B.G. Binnall & M.H. Dodds, 1947, Holy Wells in Northumberland and Durham,Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 4, X (for 1942-46), p. 82