Nun Street, Theatre and Music Room
Nun Street, Theatre and Music Room
HER Number
6614
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Nun Street, Theatre and Music Room
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Recreational
Site Type: Broad
Music Speech and Dance Venue
Site Type: Specific
Theatre
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
A playhouse was built upon the walls of St Bartholemew's hospital, near the nun's gate. The entrance to the playhouse was from the Turk's Head Yard. The old wall was visible until about the year 1833. The passage called Nun's Lane had formerly been the entrance to this nunnery. An illustration is in Brand. Brand says that the north wall of St Bartholomew's church supported the playhouse, and that the north door was still visible in this wall. The playhouse was erected by the master of the Turk's Head in 1748.
Easting
424750
Northing
564240
Grid Reference
NZ424750564240
Sources
M.A. Richardson, 1842, Local Historian's Table Book, Historical Division, Vol II, pp 19-20; J. Brand, 1789, History of Newcastle upon Tyne, Vol 1, pp 204-34 and illustration in Vol II, no. 10, opp p 47.