Farnacres

English settlement

Farnacres is a locality in Tyne and Wear, in north-east England.

Robert de Umfraville in 1428 was granted a license to use his manor of Farnacres,[1] for a chantry chapel.[2] The chapel, Umfraville charged, should be devoted to the souls of himself, his wife Isabella, Kings Henry IV and V, and to each past, present and future member of the Order of the Garter.[3]

The chantry was dedicated to St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist and was dissolved in 1548.[4]

Citations

  1. ^ Storey 1961, p. 187.
  2. ^ Lomas 1992, pp. 120–121.
  3. ^ Summerson 2004.
  4. ^ Longstaffe, W. Hylton Dyer (1970). "Early history of Ebchester, Friarside, and Medomsley". Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland. 2: 130.

References

  • Lomas, R. (1992). North-East England in the Middle Ages. Bodmin: John Donald. ISBN 978-0-85976-361-5.
  • Storey, R. L. (1961). Thomas Langley and the Bishopric of Durham. London: William Clowes and Sons. OCLC 923297593.
  • Summerson, H. (2004). "Umfraville, Sir Robert (d. 1437)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/27992. Retrieved 21 August 2018. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)