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Friarside Chapel and Hospice AKA Rowlands Gill, Burnopfield (Burnopfield)

Friarside Chapel (Burnopefield) © DCC 2005
Friarside Chapel (Burnopefield) © DCC 2005
This is the site of a medieval leper hospital. It was founded in 1312, but was gone by the fifteenth century. The remains of the hospital chapel can still be seen.

Usually called a hospital, but sometimes a chapel or chantry. The roofless remains consist of a chapel 6m wide and 9.7m long with a later building, 6m wide and 5m long, at the west end. The east wall, about 7m high, contains a window of 3 lights to full height with a circular window above. In the south wall is a large segmental arched doorway, a smaller ogee-headed doorway and two decorated windows. The north, west and south walls are about 4m high.

D1922
Medieval (1066 to 1540)
Listed Building
  • National Heritage List for England Entry Number: 1240894
Scheduled Monument
  • National Heritage List for England Entry Number: 1002342
RCHME: Durham SAMs Project 1991; Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England
South East Northumberland (SEN) Air Photo and LiDAR Mapping Project 2018 - 2022; Alison Deegan


Source of Reference
Local History of Burnopfield

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