Gateshead Head, boundary cross
Gateshead Head, boundary cross
HER Number
292
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Gateshead Head, boundary cross
Place
Gateshead
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Cross
Site Type: Specific
Boundary Cross
General Period
MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Medieval 1066 to 1540
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
A stone cross stood in front of the chapel of St. Edmund, Bishop and Confessor. It is mentioned in 1430 as 'standing in the King's highway at the head of the town of Gateshead'. Its base remained in 1783, and is shown in Grose's engraving of St. Edmund's Chapel. It marked the site known in former times as Gateshead- Head. In the year 1594 it was the scene of the martyrdom of John Ingram,'a seminary priest'.
Easting
425690
Northing
563140
Grid Reference
NZ425690563140
Sources
<< HER 292 >> TW.H. Knowles & J.R. Boyle, 1890, Vestiges of Old Newcastle and Gateshead, pp. 237-8
Illustration, F. Grose, 1783, Antiquities of England and Wales, IV
Illustration, F. Grose, 1783, Antiquities of England and Wales, IV