Newcastle town wall, Andrew Tower

HER Number:
1541

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle town wall, Andrew Tower

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Defence

Site Type: Broad:
Town Defences

Site Type: Specific:
Town Wall

General Period:
MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Medieval 1066 to 1540

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
The two available illustrations show this tower to have resembled the others on the west side of the defences, i.e. semi-circular, with oversailing corbels on the exterior, a crenellated parapet, and loop(s). Because it stood on the edge of St. Andrew's churchyard, the vaulted ground floor room had been used as a charnel house for many years before its demolition, with part of the curtain, in 1818 to enlarge the burying area. SCHEDULED ANCIENT MONUMENT

Easting:
424500

Northing:
564400

Grid Reference:
NZ424500564400

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1541 >> Illustration, M.A. Richardson, 1842, Local Historian's Table Book, Historical Division, II, 256 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, p. 127 and pl. xviii.1