Cloth Market, New-water Cross

HER Number

6522

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Cloth Market, New-water Cross

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Cross

Site Type: Specific

Cross

General Period

MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Medieval 1066 to 1540

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Towards the end of the Cloth Market was a large cross with a lead cistern at the top of it to hold water. It was called the Newe-water and was pulled down in around 1733.

Easting

424900

Northing

564000

Grid Reference

NZ424900564000

Sources

H. Bourne, 1736, The History of Newcastle upon Tyne, p 55.