Monastery of St Paul Ruins of Jarrow Monastery
MONASTERY OF ST PAUL, CHURCH BANK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1025198
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Monastery of St Paul Ruins of Jarrow Monastery
- Statutory Address:
- MONASTERY OF ST PAUL, CHURCH BANK
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1025198
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Monastery of St Paul Ruins of Jarrow Monastery
- Statutory Address 1:
- MONASTERY OF ST PAUL, CHURCH BANK
- Statutory Address 2:
- RUINS OF JARROW MONASTERY, CHURCH BANK
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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MONASTERY OF ST PAUL, CHURCH BANK
- Statutory Address:
- RUINS OF JARROW MONASTERY, CHURCH BANK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- South Tyneside (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 33881 65183
Details
NZ 36NW JARROW CHURCH BANK (east side)
Ruins of Jarrow Monastery 1/85 (Monastery of St Paul) [formerly listed as ruins of Jarrow Monastery - (St Paul's)] 18.1.49
GV I
Scheduled ancient monument. Remains of monastery. Post-Norman west range; perhaps C13 south range; post- Reformation addition to north-west of south range. Built as a Benedictine house. Sandstone blocks. Square plan, of which the church of St Paul forms the north range. East range : only part of the undercroft of the reredorter survives. South range: a wall having one round-headed opening. West range: a high wall having 2 doors; 2 slabs form the triangular head of the southernmost, recessed free-standing columns support the recessed round-head of the other. Excavations have revealed the plans of earlier buildings and these are marked out on the ground. Sources include: R Cramp Archaeological Journal vol CXXXIII 1976, 220-228 'Jarrow Church'; H M and J Taylor Anglo-Saxon Architecture (1965) Vol. I 338-349.
Listing NGR: NZ3389865172
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303746
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Taylor, H M, J, , Anglo Saxon Architecture, (1965), 338-349
Archaeological Journal in Archaeological Journal, Vol. 133, (1976), 220-8
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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