Monastery Of St Paul Ruins Of Jarrow Monastery is a Grade I listed building in the South Tyneside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 January 1949. Monastery.
Monastery Of St Paul Ruins Of Jarrow Monastery
- WRENN ID
- ragged-thatch-hyssop
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- South Tyneside
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 January 1949
- Type
- Monastery
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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
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