Anglian monastery
Anglian monastery
HER Number
273
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Anglian monastery
Place
Gateshead
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Religious House
Site Type: Specific
Monastery
General Period
EARLY MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Early Medieval 410 to 1066
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
The evidence for a monastery at Gateshead is a single statement by Bede - "Utta...a renowned priest, and abbot of the monastery of Gateshead" in A.D. 653. There has been much speculation on its location and dates of foundation & abandonment, but no evidence.
Easting
425000
Northing
563000
Grid Reference
NZ425000563000
Sources
<< HER 273 >> J.M. Dent, 1958, Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, London, p. 137 (book iii, ch. xxi).
J. H. Hinde, 1852, Lit.and Phil. Gentleman's Magazine, New Series, Vol. XXXVIII, p. 391 (or part 2 of 1852)
H. Bourne, 1736, History of Newcastle, pp. 166-8
Leland - Itin. 2nd ed., VII, p. 61
W. Page, ed. 1907, Gateshead House, Victoria County History, II, pp. 80-81
F.W.D. Manders, 1973, A History of Gateshead, pp. 1, 141
J. Brand, 1789, History of Newcastle, I, p. 488
J. H. Hinde, 1852, Lit.and Phil. Gentleman's Magazine, New Series, Vol. XXXVIII, p. 391 (or part 2 of 1852)
H. Bourne, 1736, History of Newcastle, pp. 166-8
Leland - Itin. 2nd ed., VII, p. 61
W. Page, ed. 1907, Gateshead House, Victoria County History, II, pp. 80-81
F.W.D. Manders, 1973, A History of Gateshead, pp. 1, 141
J. Brand, 1789, History of Newcastle, I, p. 488