Pilgrim Street

HER Number

6490

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Pilgrim Street

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Transport

Site Type: Broad

Road Transport Site

Site Type: Specific

Road

General Period

MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Medieval 1066 to 1540

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

Pilgrim Street could be the oldest road in Newcastle. Its name is connected with the pilgrims who passed along it and through the Pilgrim Gate in the town walls, to visit St. Mary's Chapel in Jesmond. A Pilgrim's Inn provided them with accomodation. The street held a market for wheat and rye in the seventeenth century on Tuesdays and Saturdays.

Easting

424950

Northing

564460

Grid Reference

NZ424950564460

Sources

W. Gray, 1649, Chorographia; H. Bourne, 1736, The History of Newcastle upon Tyne; N. Pevsner and I. Richmond, second edition revised by G. McCombie, P. Ryder and H. Welfare, 1992, The Buildings of England: Northumberland (second edition); D. Lovie, 1997, The Buildings of Grainger Town; I. Ayris, 1997, A City of Palaces; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p 141; Barbara Harbottle, 2009, The Medieval Archaeology of Newcastle in Diana Newton and AJ Pollard (eds), 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead before 1700, page 27; Newcastle City Libraries, 1986, Gone but not forgotten 7 - Shops and Shopping, 9; R & M, 2006, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne - Historical Assessment