Cloth Market, New-water Cross

HER Number:
6522

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Cloth Market, New-water Cross

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Cross

Site Type: Specific:
Cross

General Period:
MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Medieval 1066 to 1540

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Towards the end of the Cloth Market was a large cross with a lead cistern at the top of it to hold water. It was called the Newe-water and was pulled down in around 1733.

Easting:
424900

Northing:
564000

Grid Reference:
NZ424900564000

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
H. Bourne, 1736, The History of Newcastle upon Tyne, p 55.