Jarrow Hall

For the museum complex of which this building is a part, see Jarrow Hall (museum).

Building in England, UK

Jarrow Hall

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 / 54.982; -1.474
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

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1. ^ a b "Former Bede's World museum to reopen as Jarrow Hall". BBC News. 17 August 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
2. ^ "Jarrow, Church Bank, Jarrow Hall". sitelines.newcastle.gov.uk. 26 May 2021.
3. ^ "Melvyn Bragg attacks North-South divide as Jarrow museum closes". The Independent. 15 February 2016.
4. ^ "Home - South Tyneside Council". www.southtyneside.gov.uk.

## External links

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