Tyne and Wear HER(1559): Newcastle town wall, Pandon Burn culvert - Details
1559
Newcastle
Newcastle town wall, Pandon Burn culvert
Newcastle
NZ26SE
Defence
Town Defences
Town Wall
Medieval
C14
Demolished Building
In the stretch of curtain between Corner Tower and Pandon Gate there "was a segmentally arched opening through the wall, allowing a passage for the Pandon stream, the opening of which was ten feet wide and eight feet six inches in depth from the springing of the arch...". This section of the town wall was demolished in 1881 for the making of City Road.
2537
6415
NZ25376415
<< HER 1559 >> G.B. Richardson, 19th century, The Walls of Newcastle, 200 -Newcastle University Library Unpublished MS
S. Holmes, 1896, The Town Walls of Newcastle upon Tyne, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XVIII, 23