Gateshead, St. Mary's Well

HER Number:
707

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead, St. Mary's Well

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Water Supply and Drainage

Site Type: Broad:
Water Storage Site

Site Type: Specific:
Well

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C14

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
A single mention of this well has been recorded: "a tenement bounded on the south by a spring called St. Marywell" (1403).

Easting:
2500

Northing:
6300

Grid Reference:
NZ25006300

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 707 >> R. Welford, 1884, History of Newcastle and Gateshead, I, p. 236 Rev. P.B.G. Binnall & M.H. Dodds, 1947, Holy Wells in Northumberland and Durham,Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 4, X (for 1942-46), p. 82