Carmelite Friary 2 (Clavering Place)
Carmelite Friary 2 (Clavering Place)
HER Number
1428
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Carmelite Friary 2 (Clavering Place)
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Religious House
Site Type: Specific
Carmelite Friary
General Period
MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Medieval 1066 to 1540
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
In 1307 the Carmelite friars left their first house on Wall Knoll for the house of the Friars of the Sack in the south-west corner of the town. Although they received 2 additional grants of land in 14th century they lost a strip 297 feet x 99 feet for the town wall and ditch. Their precint seems to have been bounded by Clavering Place, Hanover Street, Orchard Street, and somewhere beneath the railway. The house was suppressed in 1539. Excavation and observation has provided evidence for a church under and south of Forth Street, a south cloister (73 feet square with lean-to walks) under the Royal Mail car park, an east range (with chapter house) under existing buildings, and a south range also under the car park. More archaeological evidence may yet survive below ground.
Easting
424860
Northing
563800
Grid Reference
NZ424860563800
Sources
<< HER 1428 >> Cal Pat R, 1301-07, 533
Cal Close R, 1307-13, 40-1
C.M. Fraser, 1961, Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Surtees Society, 176, pp. 197-8
Cal Pat R, 1334-38, 336
Cal Inq PM, II, 76
Letters & Papers Foreign & Domestic Henry VIII, XIV, pt. 1, nos. 45, 394, 969
J. Brand, 1789, History of Newcastle, I, 59-66
W.H. Knowles, 1889, Recent Excavations on the Site of the Carmelites,...at Newcastle, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XIII, 346-50
K.G. Hall, 1935, The Buildings of the Carmelites or White Friars of Newcastle,Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 4, VI (for 1933-34),
B. Harbottle, 1968, Excavations at the Carmelite Friary, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1965 & 1967, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XLVI, 163-223; Barbara Harbottle, 2009, The Medieval Archaeology of Newcastle in Diana Newton and AJ Pollard (eds), 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead before 1700, page 32-4
Cal Close R, 1307-13, 40-1
C.M. Fraser, 1961, Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Surtees Society, 176, pp. 197-8
Cal Pat R, 1334-38, 336
Cal Inq PM, II, 76
Letters & Papers Foreign & Domestic Henry VIII, XIV, pt. 1, nos. 45, 394, 969
J. Brand, 1789, History of Newcastle, I, 59-66
W.H. Knowles, 1889, Recent Excavations on the Site of the Carmelites,...at Newcastle, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XIII, 346-50
K.G. Hall, 1935, The Buildings of the Carmelites or White Friars of Newcastle,Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 4, VI (for 1933-34),
B. Harbottle, 1968, Excavations at the Carmelite Friary, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1965 & 1967, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XLVI, 163-223; Barbara Harbottle, 2009, The Medieval Archaeology of Newcastle in Diana Newton and AJ Pollard (eds), 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead before 1700, page 32-4