Jarrow, ? Dominican Priory

HER Number:
1231

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Jarrow, ? Dominican Priory

Place:
Jarrow

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Nunnery

Site Type: Specific:
Dominican Nunnery

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C13

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
It is extremely doubtful if this priory ever really existed. There is only one known reference, in 1329, to the Friars Preachers of Jarrow, when Edward III pardoned them the sum of 12 marks. It is thought likely that this reference was to the priory at Yarm

Easting:
33895

Northing:
65236

Grid Reference:
NZ3389565236

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1231 >> M.E. Cornford in W. Page, ed. 1907, Religious Houses, Victoria County History, Durham, II, 110-11 M.D. Knowles & R.N.Hadcock, 1953, Medieval Religious Houses England and Wales, 185