Jarrow Hall
| Jarrow Hall | |
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County Durham | |
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| Type: | Country house |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NZ337654 |
| Location: | 54°58’55"N, 1°28’26"W |
| History | |
| Built 1785 | |
| For: | Simon Temple |
| Country house | |
| Information | |
Jarrow Hall stands in Jarrow in County Durham. It was built as a country house in the Georgian period, later having other uses, and Is now part of the larger Jarrow Hall Museum site.[1] The house is a Grade I listed building.
The house was built around 1785 by local businessman Simon Temple; he later went |bankrupt in 1812 after a series of poor investments.[2] The hall then passed through a number of hands before being let to the Shell Mex company in 1920, and then the Jarrow Council in 1935. The Council used the hall for a storage depot, eventually letting the building become derelict and in threat of demolition. It was rescued by the St Paul's Development Trust, which funded a £50,000 restoration project.
The hall then became the Bede Monastery Museum in 1974, as a means of exhibiting information about local scholar the Venerable Bede - the location of the hall next to St Paul's Church - part of the Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey - meant it was an ideal location for the new museum. The Bede Monastery Museum became part of Bede's World which operated from 1993[3] to 2016, and is now part of Jarrow Hall - Anglo-Saxon Farm, Village and Bede Museum.[1]
The hall is now used as the café for visitors to the museum and also houses the museum offices. A permanent exhibition entitled 'The Many Faces of Jarrow Hall' chronicles the lives of previous residents of the hall.[4]
Adjacent to the hall is the grade II listed Jarrow Bridge which crosses the River Don, and once carried the main road to South Shields.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Former Bede's World museum to reopen as Jarrow Hall". BBC News. 17 August 2016. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-37106405. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
- ↑ "Jarrow, Church Bank, Jarrow Hall". May 26, 2021. https://www.twsitelines.info/SMR/8070.
- ↑ "Melvyn Bragg attacks North-South divide as Jarrow museum closes". February 15, 2016. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/melvyn-bragg-attacks-northsouth-divide-as-jarrow-museum-closes-a6875861.html.
- ↑ "Home - South Tyneside Council". https://www.southtyneside.gov.uk/.