Newcastle town wall, curtain east of Andrew Tower

HER Number:
1542

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle town wall, curtain east of Andrew 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:
Most of the easterly part of a stretch of curtain 100 yards long between Andrew Tower and New Gate survives on the north side of St. Andrew's Church. Built of rubble, not ashlar, it stands to wall walk height and retains part of a turret, with typical corbels and stumps of the outside stair. The outer face is now wholly masked by the buildings along the south side of Gallowgate, but was seen in c. 1896 by an antiquarian, Holmes who published a description. The gap between its west end and Andrew Tower was presumably made in 1818 when the churchyard was enlarged, and the east end probably broken off when New Gate was demolished. SCHEDULED ANCIENT MONUMENT AND LISTED GRADE 1

Easting:
2450

Northing:
6440

Grid Reference:
NZ24506440

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1542 >> Illustration, T.M. Richardson, 1880, Memorials of Old Newcastle-upon-Tyne, pl. xx C.H.H. Blair, 1937, The Walls of Newcastle...illustrated...by George Bouchier Richardson, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XIV, pl. xviii.1 S. Holmes, 1896, The Town wall of Newcastle, in Gallowgate, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XVIII, 109-112