Gateshead Head, boundary cross

HER Number:
292

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead Head, boundary cross

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Cross

Site Type: Specific:
Boundary Cross

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C15

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
A stone cross stood in front of the chapel of St. Edmund, Bishop and Confessor. It is mentioned in 1430 as 'standing in the King's highway at the head of the town of Gateshead'. Its base remained in 1783, and is shown in Grose's engraving of St. Edmund's Chapel. It marked the site known in former times as Gateshead- Head. In the year 1594 it was the scene of the martyrdom of John Ingram,'a seminary priest'.

Easting:
2569

Northing:
6314

Grid Reference:
NZ25696314

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 292 >> TW.H. Knowles & J.R. Boyle, 1890, Vestiges of Old Newcastle and Gateshead, pp. 237-8 Illustration, F. Grose, 1783, Antiquities of England and Wales, IV