Wallace Street, school

HER Number

6277

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Wallace Street, school

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26NW

Class

Education

Site Type: Broad

School

Site Type: Specific

Board School

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map. Spital Tongues School opened as a board school on 6 August 1877. It closed in July 1977. Site redeveloped for housing.

Easting

423950

Northing

565490

Grid Reference

NZ423950565490

Sources

2nd edition Ordnance Survey map; O. Taylor, 1993, Bygone Spital Tongues; North of England Civic Trust, February 2009, Spital Tongues, Newcastle upon Tyne - Suggested Conservation Area Scoping Study, Draft Report, p 15