Tyne and Wear HER(1549): Newcastle town wall, Pilgrim Street Gate - Details
1549
Newcastle
Newcastle town wall, Pilgrim Street Gate
Newcastle
NZ26SW
Defence
Town Defences
Town Wall
Medieval
C13
Demolished Building
This gate stood at the north end of Pilgrim Street. It was a crenellated tower of two storeys, i.e. an upper room over a rib-vaulted passage, with a barbican on the north side. Two contemporary views suggest an east ground floor door from the passage and a west door from the barbican, but as there seems insufficient space for a guardroom perhaps both gave access to stairs. The Joiners Company occupied the tower at least from 1659, and repaired it on a number of occasions, principally 1716. It was presumably they who inserted the two large round-headed windows in the south wall of the upstairs room. The gate was demolished in 1802.
2495
6447
NZ24956447
<< HER 1549 >> J. Brand, 1789, History of Newcastle, I, 15-16 and pl.
G.B. Richardson, 19th century, The Walls of Newcastle, 175, 177, 179 -Newcastle University Library Unpublished MS
M.A. Richardson, 1842, Local Historian's Table Book, Historical Division, II, 127; III, 19
T.M. Richardson, 1880, Memorials of Old Newcastle-upon-Tyne, pl. vii
S. Holmes, 1896, The Town Walls of Newcastle upon Tyne, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XVIII, 17