Jarrow Hall
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Jarrow Hall is a grade II listed building in Jarrow, Northeast England, and part of the larger Jarrow Hall museum site.{{cite news|title=Former Bede's World museum to reopen as Jarrow Hall|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-37106405|accessdate=18 August 2016|work=BBC News|date=17 August 2016}} It was built around 1785 by local businessman Simon Temple; he later went bankrupt in 1812 after a series of poor investments.{{Cite web|url=https://www.twsitelines.info/SMR/8070|title=Jarrow, Church Bank, Jarrow Hall|date=May 26, 2021|website=sitelines.newcastle.gov.uk}} The hall then passed through a number of hands before being let to the Shell Mex company in 1920, and then the Jarrow Council in 1935. The Council used the hall for a storage depot, eventually letting the building become derelict and in threat of demolition. It was rescued by the St Paul's Development Trust, which funded a £50,000 restoration project.
The hall then became the Bede Monastery Museum in 1974, as a means of exhibiting information about local scholar the Venerable Bede - the location of the hall next to St Paul's Church - part of the Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey - meant it was an ideal location for the new museum. The Bede Monastery Museum became part of Bede's World which operated from 1993{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/melvyn-bragg-attacks-northsouth-divide-as-jarrow-museum-closes-a6875861.html|title=Melvyn Bragg attacks North-South divide as Jarrow museum closes|date=February 15, 2016|website=The Independent}} to 2016, and is now part of Jarrow Hall - Anglo-Saxon Farm, Village and Bede Museum.
The hall is now used as the cafe for visitors to the museum and also houses the museum offices. A permanent exhibition entitled 'The Many Faces of Jarrow Hall' chronicles the lives of previous residents of the hall.{{Cite web|url=https://www.southtyneside.gov.uk/|title=Home - South Tyneside Council|website=www.southtyneside.gov.uk}}
Adjacent to the hall is the grade II listed Jarrow Bridge which crosses the River Don, and once carried the main road to South Shields.
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External links
- [https://www.jarrowhall.org.uk/ Official Website]
Category:History of County Durham
Category:Grade II listed buildings in Tyne and Wear
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