Tyne and Wear HER(6683): Newcastle, Akenside Hill, birthplace of Akenside the poet - Details
6683
Newcastle
Newcastle, Akenside Hill, birthplace of Akenside the poet
Newcastle
NZ26SE
Domestic
Dwelling
House
Post Medieval
Documentary Evidence
No. 33 Akenside Hill, birthplace of Mark Akenside the poet and physician. He was born above his father's shop on 9 November 1721. When he was seven, a butcher's cleaver fell on his foot, leaving him with a permanent limp. According to his contemporaries, Akenside did not have a particularly pleasant disposition and was not proud of his place of birth. He died in 1770 was was buried in St. James Church, Westminster.
The house in which Akenside the poet was born is identifiable due to diamond shaped relief on the wall of the first floor. On north side of Akenside Hill (formerly Butcher Bank).
Timber, 3 storeys
252
639
NZ252639
NCL 3715
B. Plummer, 1874, Newcastle - Its trade and manufactures NCL 55266; Jack and John Leslie, 2002, Bygone Quayside and the Chares