List of monastic houses in Tyne and Wear

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The following is a list of the monastic houses in Tyne and Wear, England.

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|Jarrow Priory ⁺

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|Benedictine monks
founded 681/2 by St Benedict Biscop and King Egfrid;
raided by the Danes 794;
destroyed in raids by the Danes c.867;
destroyed by fire and abandoned 870;
destroyed again? 973;
destroyed by William the Conqueror 1069;
Benedictine monks
(community founded at Newcastle-upon-Tyne c.1073)
restored/refounded 1074 (1072): transferred from Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1074;
cell dependent on Durham, County Durham 1083;
granted to Durham by Bishop William;
dissolved 1536; granted to William, Lord Eure;
remains partly demolished late-18th century;
nave of St Paul's Church built on foundations of main Saxon monastery church;
demolished 1782;
part of church now in parochial use; (EH)

|The Priory Church of Saint Paul, Jarrow
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St Paul's Monastery;
Jarrow Monastery;
St Paul's Priory;
Priory of St Paul;
St Paul's Monastery

|{{PastScape|mnumber=26515 |mname=JARROW PRIORY|accessdate=9 October 2015}}[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=39877#s102 British History Online — Saxon Houses: including Wearmouth and Jarrow — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Durham: Volume 2 (pp. 79-85)]

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|Jarrow Friary?

|Dominican Friars
possible ref. to Yarm Friary, North Yorks

|possibly Yarm Friary (Jarue Friary)

|[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=39883#s3 British History Online — Friaries: Friars Preachers (Hartlepool & Jarrow) — Victoria County History: A History of the County of Durham: Volume 2 (pp.110-111)]

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|Newcastle-upon-Tyne Austin Friars

|Augustinian Friars (under the Limit of York)
founded before 1291 by Lord Ross;
dissolved 1539; granted to John, Duke of Northumberland 1551/2;
utilised by the Council of the North;
in use as a military storehouse until sold 1605 and dismantled;
Holy Jesus Hospital, currently in use as a museum, lies within the site of the friary church

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|Newcastle-upon-Tyne Blackfriars ^

|Dominican Friars (under the Visitation of York)
founded c.1239 (or 1260) by Sir Peter and Sir Nicholas Scott;
dissolved 1538; granted to the Mayor and burgesses of Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1543/4;
surviving cloister buildings later used as company halls and almshouses;
restored 1978-81;
currently in use as restaurant, workshops and tourist information centre

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|Newcastle-upon-Tyne Friars of the Sack

|Friars of the Sack
founded 1267;
dissolved 1307 on the suppression of the order;
house granted to the Carmelite Friars (see below)

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|Newcastle-upon-Tyne Greyfriars ^#

|Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual (under the Custody of Newcastle)
founded before 1237;
dissolved 1539;
Observant Franciscan Friars
transferred 1498;
dissolved 1534;
Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual
1534;
dissolved

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|Newcastle-upon-Tyne Monastery (?)

|purported early monastery — evidence lackingNewcastle-upon-Tyne, early monastery — T. Tanner, Notitia Monastica, p.391: "But of these old monks here I have yet met with no particular account"

| 'Castrum vel civitas monachorum' ("Monkchester") ibid.

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|Newcastle-upon-Tyne Priory

|Benedictine monks — from Evesham, Worcestershire
founded c.1073;
transferred to Jarrow 1074

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|Newcastle-upon-Tyne — St Bartholomew's Priory

|Benedictine nuns
founded before 1086;
possibly dissolved
(re)founded shortly before 1135(?);
dissolved 3 January 1540

|St Bartholomew

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|Newcastle-upon-Tyne Trinitarians

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|Trinitarians
founded 1360 by William Wakefield on the former site of Carmelite Friars (see immediately below);
dissolved 1539; granted to Richard Gresham and Richard Billingford 1545/6

|St Michael;

Holy Trinity
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Acton's Hospital

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|Newcastle-upon-Tyne Whitefriars, earlier site

|Carmelite Friars
founded before 1262 by Richard I;
transferred to the former site of the Friars of the Sack (see immediately below) 1307, when the site was divided by the new town wall;
hospital of St Michael founded on the site 1360 (see immediately above)

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|Newcastle-upon-Tyne Whitefriars

|formerly the house of Friars of the Sack;
Carmelite Friars (see above)
(community founded at earlier site (see immediately above) 1262);
transferred here 1307;
granted to Richard Gresham and Richard Billingford 1545/6;
remains demolished 1960s

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|Tynemouth Priory

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|Saxon monastery
apparently both monks and nuns
purportedly founded after 653 (after 627 / after 634) by King Oswald;
nuns settled here from various locations during Danish raids;
completely destroyed 865-75;
apparently restored 10th century;
monks transferred to Durham, Durham 1083;
Benedictine monks
dependent on St Albans, Hertfordshire;
repaired and refounded c.1083 (1085) by Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumberland, by consent of the King and the Archbishop of Canterbury; (EH)

|St Mary

St Mary and St Oswin

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|Wearmouth Abbey,
Monkwearmouth

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|Benedictine? monks
founded 674, built by St Benedict Biscopius;
destroyed in raids by the Danes c.867;
destroyed by Malcolm III, King of Scotland 1070;
Benedictine monks
refounded 1074(1075);
priory cell 1083;
dissolved 1536; granted to Thomas Whitehead 1545/6

|The Abbey Church of Saint Peter, Wearmouth
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Monkswearmouth Abbey;
Monkwearmouth Abbey;
Wermouth Cell

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