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Blackfriars south range, Newcastle
Blackfriars south range - listed parts, based on Historic England data (Open Government Licence).
The south range of Blackfriars, on Monk Street in Newcastle, is now a restaurant and events/exhibition space. It was originally part of the Dominican Friary established in 1239. The south range of the friary is thought to have included the monks refectory, Kitchen, daystair (a direct route for monks from their dormitory), and slypes (covered walk ways).[1]
After the Reformation of 1539, the friary was used as Comapny Halls for some of the guilds of Newcastle, and as almshouses. The south range included Butchers' Hall (rebuilt in 1739), Tanners' Hall, Smiths' Hall (carved Company arms dated 1679 above the door), and Cordwainers Hall (rebuilt in 1843 by John Wardle). The friary was restored 1978-81.[2] It became a resurant in 2001. The south range of Blackfriars is Grade I listed on the National Heritage List for England (legally protected).
Listing (#1087001): Blackfriars South Range
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Blackfriars south range (formerly listed as Nos. 12 to 17 consecutive) G.V. I Dominican Friary, later Company Halls and almshouses, now restaurant and tourist information centre and exhibition space with Smiths' Company Hall. Medieval with C18 and C19 alterations; restored 1978-81. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof at left to Cordwainers' hall, other roofs pantiles with 2 rows of stone slates at eaves.
Cordwainers' Hall rebuilt 1843 by John Wardle (dated door head). 2 storeys; 4:3:3:3 windows. Slightly-projecting left bay has boarded, studded door in moulded Tudor-arched surround with date in spandrels and commemorative panel above; raised dripmould contains carved Cordwainers' arms. Single cusped window above. Plainer Tudor arch to a second door flanked by 3-light casements with rounded top corners; cusped 2-light windows above, all with label moulds. Eaves string and roll-moulded parapet.
Butchers' hall: rebuilt 1739; renewed door at right and ground-floor horizontal sliding sashes under renewed stone lintels. Renewed cross windows with wedge stone lintels above, and small blocked rectangular window. Tanners' Hall: renewed chamfered 2-centred passage arch at right to cloister; 4 lancets with some renewed masonry and deep splayed reveals. 3 renewed cross windows with flat stone lintels above.
Buttress with offsets between this and Smiths' Hall which has resited carved Company arms dated 1679 above studded boarded door in shaped, moulded surround; this bay, added in C19, has top window in gothic stone surround. 3 ground-floor lancets and 2 cross windows above, flanking commemorative panel dating repairs of 1770. Interior shows wall benches in position of medieval refectory benches.
Upper floor has chimney piece dated 1739 in Butchers' Hall; oval table with benches and turned balustrades in Tanners' Hall; day stairs alongside passage; round table with benches and iron railings, wall benches, chimney piece with paired classical attached columns, in Smiths' Hall. Source: Barbara Harbottle "Black Friars, Newcastle upon Tyne" in Royal Archaeological Institute Proceedings 1976 pp 112-114. A scheduled ancient monument.
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Blackfriars South Range - Newcastle - List Entry
- Blackfriars south range (formerly listed as Nos. 12 to 17 consecutive) G.V. I Dominican Friary, later Company Halls and almshouses, now restaurant and tourist information centre and exhibition space with …
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Tyne and Wear HER(1433): Newcastle, Dominican Friary (Blackfriars)
- "The first reference to the friary dates from 1239. Their precint was acquired piecemeal, and came to extend east-west from Low Friar St to beyond Corporation St, and north-south from …
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Cordwainers Company of Newcastle Upon Tyne
- A cordwainer is somebody who makes shoes and other products from soft leather. The Cordwainers Company of Newcastle Upon Tyne was incorporated in in c. 1439 (though earliest documentary evidence is …
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Blackfriars South Range - Newcastle - List Entry
- Blackfriars south range (formerly listed as Nos. 12 to 17 consecutive) G.V. I Dominican Friary, later Company Halls and almshouses, now restaurant and tourist information centre and exhibition space with …
Added by
Simon Cotterill
from http://www.twsitelines.info/s…
Tyne and Wear HER(1433): Newcastle, Dominican Friary (Blackfriars)
- "The first reference to the friary dates from 1239. Their precint was acquired piecemeal, and came to extend east-west from Low Friar St to beyond Corporation St, and north-south from …
Added by
Simon Cotterill
