Bailey Gate

HER Number

13529

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Bailey Gate

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Defence

Site Type: Broad

Castle

Site Type: Specific

Castle

General Period

MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Medieval 1066 to 1540

Form of Evidence

Implied Evidence

Description

The original entrance into the 1080 castle by Robert Curthose was perhaps on the site of the Bailey Gate near the south-west corner of the 12th century keep and was approached by the street called Bailiffgate. Appears to have been the earliest of the principle entrances to the Castle.

Easting

424900

Northing

563800

Grid Reference

NZ424900563800

Sources

Barbara Harbottle, 2009, The Medieval Archaeology of Newcastle, in Diana Newton and AJ Pollard (eds), 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead before 1700, page 23; WHD Longstaffe, 1860, The New Castle upon Tyne, Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 2, plate opp p 98; CP Graves and DH Heslop, 2013, Newcastle upon Tyne - The Eye of the North, An Archaeological Assessment, p 105, 109; B Harbottle, 1974, Excavation and survey in Newcastle upon Tyne 1972-1973, Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 5, Vol 2, p 59; J Brand, 1789, The History and Antiquities of the Town and County of Newcastle upon Tyne, Vol 1, p 160