Jarrow Hall

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.

For the museum complex of which this building is a part, see Jarrow Hall (museum).
Jarrow Hall
Location in Tyne and Wear
General information
LocationTyne and Wear, England, UK
Coordinates54.982°N 1.474°W / 54.982; -1.474
OS gridNZ337654

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]

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
  • The Journal (Newcastle upon Tyne), 10 January 2005
  1. "Former Bede's World museum to reopen as Jarrow Hall". BBC News. 17 August 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
  2. http://www.twsitelines.info/smr/8070
  3. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/melvyn-bragg-attacks-north-south-divide-as-jarrow-museum-closes-a6875861.html
  4. "Former Bede's World museum to reopen as Jarrow Hall". BBC News. 17 August 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
  5. http://www.southtyneside.info/article/19380/history-of-jarrow-hall-brought-to-life


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