Silksworth, Chapel of St. Leonard
Silksworth, Chapel of St. Leonard
HER Number
221
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Silksworth, Chapel of St. Leonard
Place
Silksworth
Map Sheet
NZ35SE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
Site Type: Specific
Chapel
General Period
MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Medieval 1066 to 1540
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
The existence of the chapel is supported by a single published but undated charter in which John, son of Marmaduke, gave his relative John de Dalton, chaplain, land on the west side of the vill of Silksworth, next to the chapel of St. Leonard. The 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan includes "Chapel Garth Well" in the field immediately south of Silksworth village, but there is no other known evidence to support this name and location.
Easting
437500
Northing
552600
Grid Reference
NZ437500552600
Sources
<< HER 221 >> R. Surtees, 1972, History of...the County Palatine of Durham I (1816), p. 244
Ordnance Survey, 1854, 1st edition 1:2500, Durham XIV.9, Durham University Archives & Special Collection,
J. Patterson, 1907, Silksworth and St. Leonard's Chapel,... Antiquities of Sunderland, VI (for 1905), pp. 4, 7-8
Ordnance Survey, 1854, 1st edition 1:2500, Durham XIV.9, Durham University Archives & Special Collection,
J. Patterson, 1907, Silksworth and St. Leonard's Chapel,... Antiquities of Sunderland, VI (for 1905), pp. 4, 7-8