Farnacres Explained

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, for a chantry chapel. 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.

The chantry was dedicated to St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist and was dissolved in 1548.^[1]

References

• Book: Lomas, R.. North-East England in the Middle Ages. John Donald. 1992. 978-0-85976-361-5. Bodmin.
• Book: Storey, R. L.. Thomas Langley and the Bishopric of Durham. William Clowes and Sons. 1961. 923297593. London.
• Umfraville, Sir Robert (d. 1437) . Summerson . H. . 2004 . 21 August 2018 . 10.1093/ref:odnb/27992.

Notes and References

1. 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.