St. Leonard's Hospital, grave slab and coffins
St. Leonard's Hospital, grave slab and coffins
HER Number
7294
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
St. Leonard's Hospital, grave slab and coffins
Place
Tynemouth
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Coffin
Site Type: Specific
Coffin
General Period
MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Medieval 1066 to 1540
Form of Evidence
Structure
Description
Grave slab and coffins. Medieval. Sandstone slab with matrices for one male, one female figures and at their feet for five smaller figures, the central one female. Two stone coffins to north and south. Modern iron railing around slab. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
436110
Northing
569290
Grid Reference
NZ436110569290
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 8/98; H.E. Craster, 1907, History of Northumberland, Vol VIII, pp 259-260; S.S. Carr, 1904, The Early Monumental Remains of Tynemouth, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XXV, pp. 130-131