Jarrow Hall

Coordinates: 54°58′55″N 1°28′26″W / 54.982°N 1.474°W / 54.982; -1.474

Jarrow Hall
Jarrow Hall Jarrow Hall shown within Tyne and Wear
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Jarrow Hall is a grade II listed building in Jarrow, Tyne and Wear, North East, England, and part of the larger Jarrow Hall - Anglo-Saxon Farm, Village and Bede Museum site.^[1] It 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.^[4]

The hall is now used as the cafe 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.^[5]

Sources

The Journal (Newcastle upon Tyne), 10 January 2005

External links

• Bede's World Website