Newcastle town wall, Ficket Tower

HER Number:
1547

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle town wall, Ficket 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:
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.

Easting:
424840

Northing:
564430

Grid Reference:
NZ424840564430

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1547 >> J. Brand, 1789, History of Newcastle, I, 15 M.A. Richardson, 1843, Local Historian's Table Book, Historical Division, III, 333 G.B. Richardson, 19th century, The Walls of Newcastle, 173 -Newcastle University Library Unpublished MS Illustration, T.M. Richardson, 1880, Memorials of Old Newcastle-upon-Tyne, pl. xxviii S. Holmes, 1896, The Town Walls of Newcastle upon Tyne, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XVIII, 17