Newcastle town wall, curtain north of Morden Tower

HER Number:
1538

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle town wall, curtain north of Morden Tower

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Defence

Site Type: Broad:
Town Defences

Site Type: Specific:
Town Wall

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C13

Form of Evidence:
Ruined Building

Description:
This stretch stands to the wall walk, with most of the parapet surviving, some of it beneath later walling over blocked embrasures. Two external base chamfers step down north of Morden Tower and disappear. The original face, on both sides, is of large well-dressed masonry, but there has been much patching at different times on the inside, and there is one prominent vertical joint. There are the remains of two turrets. SCHEDULED ANCIENT MONUMENT AND LISTED GRADE 1

Easting:
2440

Northing:
6428

Grid Reference:
NZ24406428

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1538 >> IllustrationJ. Brand, 1789, History of Newcastle, I, pl. opp. 2 P. Brewis, 1934, The West Walls of Newcastle upon Tyne, between Durham and Ever Towers, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XI, pp. 9, 16, pl. viii.14 C.H.H. Blair, 1937, The Walls of Newcastle...illustrated...by George Bouchier Richardson, Archaeologia Aeliana,4, XIV, p. 127, pl. xvii