| Jarrow Hall | |
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  Location in Tyne and Wear | |
| General information | |
| Location | Tyne and Wear, England, UK |
| Coordinates | 54°58′55″N 1°28′26″W / 54.982°N 1.474°W |
| OS grid | NZ337654 |
Jarrow Hall is a grade II listed building in Jarrow, Northeast England, and part of the larger Jarrow Hall 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.[1]
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.[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.
References
- 1 2 "Former Bede's World museum to reopen as Jarrow Hall". BBC News. 17 August 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
- ↑ "Jarrow, Church Bank, Jarrow Hall". sitelines.newcastle.gov.uk. 26 May 2021.
- ↑ "Melvyn Bragg attacks North-South divide as Jarrow museum closes". The Independent. 15 February 2016.
- ↑ "Home - South Tyneside Council". www.southtyneside.gov.uk.
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