Newcastle town wall, Pandon Burn culvert

HER Number:
1559

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle town wall, Pandon Burn culvert

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

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:
In the stretch of curtain between Corner Tower and Pandon Gate there "was a segmentally arched opening through the wall, allowing a passage for the Pandon stream, the opening of which was ten feet wide and eight feet six inches in depth from the springing of the arch...". This section of the town wall was demolished in 1881 for the making of City Road.

Easting:
425370

Northing:
564150

Grid Reference:
NZ425370564150

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1559 >> G.B. Richardson, 19th century, The Walls of Newcastle, 200 -Newcastle University Library Unpublished MS S. Holmes, 1896, The Town Walls of Newcastle upon Tyne, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XVIII, 23