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Andrew Tower, Newcastle


1541


Newcastle


Newcastle town wall, Andrew Tower


Newcastle


NZ26SW


Defence


Town Defences


Town Wall


MEDIEVAL


Medieval 1066 to 1540


Demolished Building


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


424500


564400


NZ424500564400



<< 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

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