Tyne and Wear HER(1394): Armstrong Park, King John's Well - Details
1394
Newcastle
Armstrong Park, King John's Well
Heaton
NZ26NE
Water Supply and Drainage
Water Storage Site
Well
POST MEDIEVAL
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Structure
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
426550
565920
NZ426550565920
<< 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