High Friarside
High Friarside is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated a short distance to the west of Burnopfield.[1]
The placename is variously recorded as Frevejohanside, Frerejonside, and Freresyde meaning "Friar (John’s) hill".[2] There are also localities called Low Friarside and Middle Friarside.
At Low Friarside there are the ruins of a chapel. The date of the foundation of the chapel (sometimes referred to as a chantry or house, and possibly connected to a hospital) is unknown. However, it was in existence in 1312 when Bishop Kellawe collated John Eryum to 'the house, chapel, or chantry of Friarside (Frerejohanside) near Derwent.'[3] In Bishop Hatfield's Survey (1383), the warden of the chantry of Friarside held a messuage and 22 acres of land in Wolsingham. In 1439 Bishop Neville appropriated it with all its revenues to the chantry of Farnacres after that site had suffered floods and a decrease in finances.[4]
A list of masters of the chantry/chapel include, John Eryum, 1312; Richard de Egglescliffe, 1376 (?) William Thorp, 1376; Oswald, bishop of Whithorn, d. 1417; Robert Frend, 1418; William Cross, 1422; and, John Gare, 1423.[4][5]
The hospital seems to have been demolished in 1450 [citation needed]. However, the chapel survived and with the closure of the chantries in England 1548 it was recorded that Friarside still had one bell perhaps indicating continued usage.[6]
At Middle Friarside there is moat with multiple embankments and ditches.[7]
There was a coal mine, South Garesfield Colliery, also known as Friarside Colliery and North Lintz Colliery that operated 1865-1960 (located to the west of Low Friarside.[8]
References
- ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 88 Newcastle upon Tyne (Durham & Sunderland) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2012. ISBN 9780319229989.
- ^ Mawer, A. (1920). The place-names of Northumberland and Durham. p. 90.
- ^ Hardy, Thomas Duffus (1873). Registrum Palatinum Dunelmense : The Register of Richard de Kellawe, Lord Palatine and Bishop of Durham, 1311-1316. Volume 1. p. 248.
- ^ a b Page, William (1905). The Victoria history of the county of Durham. p. 123.
- ^ Boutflower, Douglas Samuel (1926). Fasti dunelmenses : a record of the beneficed clergy of the diocese of Durham down to the dissolution of the monastic and collegiate churches. p. 162.
- ^ Longstaffe, W. Hylton Dyer. (1970). Early history of Ebchester, Friarside, and Medomsley. Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland 2. Vol 2, p.130.
- ^ Page, William (1905). The Victoria history of the county of Durham. p. 359.
- ^ "South Garesfield Colliery". Durham Mining Museum.
54°54′14″N 1°44′44″W / 54.90389°N 1.74556°W
Further reading
Longstaffe, W. Hylton Dyer. (1970). Early history of Ebchester, Friarside, and Medomsley.. Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland 2. Vol 2, pp. 125-133.
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