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

Lats/Lons:

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