Newcastle town wall, Stank Tower

HER Number:
1521

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle town wall, Stank 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:
This tower is thought to have resembled the other bastions on the western fortifications, i.e. semi-circular in plan, single storey in height. In 1827 Mackenzie noted that "the upper part of this tower is demolished. There is a passage through it to a dwelling-house, and another into a garden". The semi-circular part was later flushed off to the curtain, and just one rib of the vault and the stairs remained when it was finally removed in 1847 for Neville Street.

Easting:
424630

Northing:
563900

Grid Reference:
NZ424630563900

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1521 >> J. Brand, 1789, History of Newcastle, I, 10 E. Mackenzie, 1827, View of Newcastle, 108 G.B. Richardson, 19th century, The Walls of Newcastle, 111 -Newcastle University Library Unpublished MS S. Holmes, 1896, The Town Walls of Newcastle upon Tyne, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XVIII, 12 C.H.H. Blair, 1937, The Walls of Newcastle...illustrated...by George Bouchier Richardson, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XIV, 126, pl. xiv.1