Percy Street, Nonconformists/Puritan Burial Ground

HER Number

5994

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Percy Street, Nonconformists/Puritan Burial Ground

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26NE

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Cemetery

Site Type: Specific

Cemetery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

"Burying Ground" shown on Hutton's map of 1770. Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 2, XIX, xv

Easting

424750

Northing

564840

Grid Reference

NZ424750564840

Sources

<<HER 5994>> Charles Hutton, 1770, A Plan of Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead; Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 2, XIX, xv; Jack and John Leslie, 2003, Down our streets - Newcastle's street names explored, p 28; Alan Morgan, 2004, Beyond the Grave - Exploring Newcastle's Burial Grounds, pages 169-70