Cannon found in Military Road, North Shields. Had been used as a bollard. Plans now to display it at Clifford's Fort.

The tower is situated on the north side of the east end of the C17th brick built Holy Jesus Hospital. It has been dated to the second half of the C16th and the whole building range is located on the site of a former Augustinian Friary. The tower consists of four walls standing complete to three storeys in height. It incorporates in its south wall part of the north wall of the choir of the friary church and a pointed arch window. Inside, a fine medieval effigy of a knight was found during excavations. Pevsner calls it "The Tower of the Manors" (the Manors was a freehold which belonged to the town) {1-2}. Part of the Austin Friary. C13 and C16. Large sandstone blocks. 3 storeys, one bay. West elevation has double-chamfered 2-centred arch with drip mould; renewed door; irregular fenestration: small square windows on each floor. Interior has stone newel stair; first floor south wall has double-chamfered 2-centred-arched window with tracery removed. Exterior door of studded planks now re-used in ground floor. Ground floor contains medieval cross-slab and effigy of knight in armour found during excavation prior to restoration {3}. McCombie - often misnamed Austin Friars' Tower, but is mostly later 16th century. Its south wall incorporates a pointed window arch of the friary church choir's north wall. Excavation showed that the lower part of the west wall was a surviving fragment of the friary sacristy. The tower's other walls could only have been built after the Dissolution. A fine medieval effigy of a knight was found during the excavation and is now in the Discovery Museum. Dated C16th.

The Holy Jesus Hospital was founded in 1681 on the site of an Austin Friary. The Mayor and Burgesses of Newcastle upon Tyne founded the hospital for the relief of Freemen and their widows and unmarried children. The building was built on a parcel of land called the Manors, a freehold which belonged to the town, and it housed a master and 39 poor freemen. The Holy Jesus Hospital Act of 1847 regulated the hospital. Under this Act the Corporation had to pay out of the Walker Estate £800 per annum for the support and maintenance of the hospital. By 1926 they were authorised to provide £500 per annum from the rates. The hospital at that time consisted of a master (the first master was Thomas Lewen, merchant), 6 Bretheren (freemen of Newcastle over 50 years of age without wives), and 31 Sisters (widows or daughters of Freemen, single or unmarried, over 50 years old). Up to 6 Sisters who were between the ages of 30 and 50 could also be appointed to take care of the sick and infirm. Inmates received an unfurnished room, free light, medical attendance and a ton of coal every quarter. The hospital an allowance of £2 3s 4d per month, which included 1s 11d for each Brother and Sister. Each Christmas and Midsummer the residents received 6s 3d, which was the interest on the £600 given by Miss Mary Buck. Every Lady Day and Michaelmas Day under the John Rumney Charity, the residents received a further 7 1/2 d. The Master and Brethren received every Christmas an order for clothing valued at £2 1s, and the Sisters 12s 6d and an additional 2s 6d for making a gown. Any money left over was put into the poor box and divided amongst residents every Christmas. The relatives of a deceased Brother or Sister received an allowance of £2 towards funeral expenses. By 1937 the institution had resited at Spital Tongues because the building was declared unfit. Thanks to a bequest from John George Joicey in 1968, the building became a local history museum. The museum closed in 1995. The hospital building is three storeys high with an open arcade of brick arches on square pillars at ground floor level. It is one of only two complete C17 brick buildings to survive in Newcastle (the other is Alderman Fenwick's House). Inside is a oak staircase which originally had figures carved onto the handrail. The figure at the foot of the stairs, next to the poor box, represented Charity protecting orphan children. There was also a sea horse holding a shield with Newcastle's Coat of Arms, and a lion holding a blank shield on the first and second returns of the staircase. They were moved to the Mary Magdalene Hospital sheltered housing off Claremont Road. There is an inscription on front of building which translated says: "Hospital erected at the expense of the Citizens and Burgesses of Newcastle upon Tyne in the year of Salvation 1682. Timothy Robson, Mayor. John Squire, Sheriff. Now therefore abideth these three Faith, Hope and Charity, but the greatest of these is Charity." City Road, which was built in 1882-3, passes over the site of a lawn which formerly fronted the hospital. In front of the entrance is a large ornamented fountain. The left gable was partly renewed when a soup kitchen was added at the rear in 1880. Shown on James Corbridge's survey of 1723 with side-hinged casements. The soup kitchen was a commercial venture and not Victorian social security. Soup was sold from 8-12 each working day for 1p a pint.

Drinking fountain in north extension of Mowbray Park at the north end of Central Avenue. Dated 1878. Founder's plate Glenfield & Kennedy Ltd., Kilmarnock; for the Order of Oddfellows in memory of William Hall; gift to the Corporation of Sunderland. Cast - iron. Small domed canopy with elaborate foliage and 4 cusped arches on columns shelters bollard - shaped drinking fountain. Above each arch an escutcheon and motto. On N and S: KEEP THE PAVEMENT DRY, and NIL DESPERANDUM AUSPICE DEO 1878, (the borough's motto) with symbols of borough and of Oddfellows. On E and W: AMICITIA AMOR ET VERITAS 1878 with on E, IN MEMORY OF WM HALL PPGM OF THE SUNDERLAND DISTRICT INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODDFELLOWS and on W, PRESENTED TO THE CORPORATION OF SUNDERLAND BY THE ODDFELLOWS NU.

Marked on O.S. as Refuge Assurance Buildings. Offices. C1900. By Henderson and Hall. Bright red brick with ashlar bands and dressings; Lakeland slate roof with ashlar copings, brick and ashlar chimneys and lead dome; wrought - iron balustrade to cellar steps on right return to West Sunniside. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement, 2:1:2 x 3 windows with corner turret. Central bay has panelled door and plain overlight at right in surround with round head; high keystone and voussoirs to open pediment on rusticated pilasters; high panel above has carved panel flanked by pilasters supporting cornice; 2 - light mullion window on second floor has segmental pediment on cornice. Prominent eaves gutter cornice to this bay. Flanking gabled sections have blocked cellar opening below 3 - light mullion and transom windows; shaped aprons to similar first floor windows with cornices; projecting sills to second floor corniced 3 - light mullion windows. Paired 2 - light windows in gable peaks under with small segmental coping. Flush sill and lintel ashlar bands. Round corner turret on ogee - moulded first - floor bracket has similar treatment to narrow lights, with small round - headed light flanked by big cartouches in top floor of ashlar. Original glazing bars in some windows on ground and first floors. Roof has 2 straight - headed dormers over central bay; tall ashlar - corniced chimneys on ridge and behind turret. Right return to West Sunniside has central basement entrance; similar windows and shallow bowed first - floor oriel. Wrought - iron balustrade to cellar steps has trailing sunflower and leaf ornament. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814 - 1914.: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1983-: 15 and 21).

House. c1830. English garden wall bond brick (5 and one) with rendered plinth and ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 2 windows. Central flushed door and overlight with glazing bars in panelled reveal, possibly Sunderland - type doors folded back, with doorcase of fluted Doric half columns and entablature with shallow dentils and prominent cornice. Plain sash windows have wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills. Roof has local style later19th century dormer with canted window and hipped roof.

Lamp standard. C1925. Cast - iron. Highly decorated. Octagonal base supports fluted post springing from acanthus foliage. Moulded top with four ornamental brackets from which 4 light globes hang. Founder's name at foot heavily overpainted.

Lamp standard. C1925. Cast - iron. Highly decorated. Octagonal base supports fluted post springing from acanthus foliage. Moulded top with four ornamental brackets from which 4 light globes hang. Founder's name at foot heavily overpainted.

Lamp standard. C1925. Cast - iron. Highly decorated. Octagonal base supports fluted post springing from acanthus foliage. Moulded top with four ornamental brackets from which 4 light globes hang. Founder's name at foot heavily overpainted.

Lamp standard. C1925. Cast - iron. Highly decorated. Octagonal base supports fluted post springing from acanthus foliage. Moulded top with four ornamental brackets from which 4 light globes hang. Founder's name at foot heavily overpainted.