Newcastle town wall, Ficket Tower

An antiquarian account describes this as "the most eastern of the single-chambered bastions", i. e. it presumably closely resembled the towers on the west part of the town wall. In the only known illustration it appears very delapidated, with its north (external) front much obscured by a strange little house. It was for a time occupied by a nailor called Bates, and was finally demolished in 1824 or 1825 to make way for St. James' Chapel in Blackett Street.