Armstrong Park, King John's Well

HER Number:
1394

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Armstrong Park, King John's Well

Place:
Heaton

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:
Water Supply and Drainage

Site Type: Broad:
Water Storage Site

Site Type: Specific:
Well

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
The well is not marked on the first edition Ordnance Survey plan map, but is shown on the 2nd edition, some distance north of the camera of Adam of Jesmond. It has been described as a supposedly medicinal sping, formerly piped into a modern trough, but now dry. Associated with 'King John's Palace' to the south. A photo dated 1888 in the City Library shows a recess in a rockery, and water falling from an entry in the back wall into a trough. Above, and attached by chains to the trough, is a stone lintel inscribed "YE WELL OF KING JOHN". LOCAL LIST

Easting:
426550

Northing:
565920

Grid Reference:
NZ426550565920

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1394 >> Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, B.H. Pritchard, 1967, King John's Well 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1:2,500 scale, Durham 97.4 Ordnance Survey map, 1899, 2nd ed. 6 XCVII NE Photo, Newcastle Library Local Studies, Vertical Files - 1888, Newcastle Parks Heaton Park Well of King John