Fast Search

You are Here: Home / Newcastle town wall, Corner Tower

Tyne and Wear HER(1557): Newcastle town wall, Corner Tower - Details

Back to Search Results

Corner Tower, Newcastle


1557


Newcastle


Newcastle town wall, Corner Tower


Newcastle


NZ26SE


Defence


Town Defences


Town Wall


MEDIEVAL


Medieval 1066 to 1540


Ruined Building


Not a tower of the usual type, but two turrets standing to roof height set at right-angles to one another on the eastern re-entrant of the curtain. It must be supposed that this re-entrant resulted from Newcastle's acquisition of Pandon by Edward I's charter of 20 December 1299. Excavation showed that the wall had never run straight on here, as earlier writers had suggested, and that the raggy masonry on the south side of Corner Tower was only the remnant of a buttress. In other words the angle represented a change of design before the wall reached this point. SCHEDULED ANCIENT MONUMENT AND LISTED GRADE 1


425300


564150


NZ425300564150



<< HER 1557 >> J. Brand, 1789, History of Newcastle, I, 17 S. Holmes, 1896, The Town Walls of Newcastle upon Tyne, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XVIII, 19, 22 E. Tullett, 1979, An Excavation at the Corner Tower, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1978, 5, VII, 179-189 M.A. Richardson, 1846, Local Historian's Table Book, Historical Division, Archaeologia Aeliana, V, 292

Back to Search Results