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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17530408

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