Gallowgate, St Andrew's Poor House

HER Number:
6870

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Gallowgate, St Andrew's Poor House

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Health and Welfare

Site Type: Broad:
Workhouse

Site Type: Specific:
Workhouse

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. There were four parish Poor Law Houses in Newcastle. In 1839 the Newcastle Board of Governors started buying land on Westgate Road to accommodate a new workhouse for the City, which would replace them - this became Newcastle General Hospital. St. Andrew's poor House was enlarged and altered in 1810 and 1817. In 1831, according to Thomas Oliver, it housed 56 inmates. They cost 4s each per week to feed. Children were sent to school. Girls were employed in the house and taught writing and accounts by a master in the evenings. In exchange for work done, the sick were given medicine, and beer, wine and spirits were allowed.

Easting:
424190

Northing:
564370

Grid Reference:
NZ424190564370

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 6870 >> Ordnance Survey first edition map, 1850; The Workhouse, The story of an institution, www.workhouses.org.uk/NewcastleUponTyne/; Archaeological Services Durham University, 2018, Heber St - Archaeological Assessment; Archaeological Services Durham University, 2018, Land at Heber Street, Newcastle - Archaeological Evaluation