St Ann’s, Battlefield
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Description
Official Website of the Church. Includes a section on history of the church and predecessor chapel. "...In 1334, Robert the Squire of Byker, granted to John Sergerstane, a hermit, a plot of land two hundred feet square, together with a lane twenty feet wide connecting the plot with the Tyne, for an annual payment of forty shillings. This was in order that Sergerstane and his supporters might build upon the plot a chapel in honour of St Mary the Virgin and her Mother, St Ann. The chapel was probably small and, to judge from an inventory made in 1548, by no means richly furnished. After the Reformation it seems to have been neglected, though burials still took place in its churchyard and it may have suffered when it became the centre of an emergency plague hospital in the reign of Elizabeth 1, or when all the houses in Sandgate were burnt down during the siege of Newcastle in 1644...." -
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Further information
Link: http://saintannbattlefield.org.uk/
Resource type: Text/Website
Added by: Simon Cotterill
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