Newcastle town wall, Black Friars postern
Newcastle town wall, Black Friars postern
HER Number
1535
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Newcastle town wall, Black Friars postern
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Defence
Site Type: Broad
Town Defences
Site Type: Specific
Town Wall
General Period
MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Medieval 1066 to 1540
Form of Evidence
Ruined Building
Description
In 1280 the Dominican friars were given licence "to make a narrow gate through the new wall surrounding the said town, which will have to be made through the garden of the said friars, for ingress into the said garden,…on condition that the sheriff of Northumberland or the constable of the castle…may stop it when they please for a time". This postern survives, blocked on its east (inner) face in the late 19th century, in the curtain between Heber and Morden Towers. SCHEDULED ANCIENT MONUMENT
Easting
424370
Northing
564220
Grid Reference
NZ424370564220
Sources
<< HER 1535 >> Cal Pat Rolls, 1280 1272-1281 397
J. Brand, 1789, History of Newcastle, I, 2 and note c.
R. Fraser in J. Nolan, etc. 1989, The Medieval Town Defences of Newcastle upon Tyne... Archaeologia Aeliana, 5, XVII, 54-5;
J. Brand, 1789, History of Newcastle, I, 2 and note c.
R. Fraser in J. Nolan, etc. 1989, The Medieval Town Defences of Newcastle upon Tyne... Archaeologia Aeliana, 5, XVII, 54-5;