Newcastle town wall, curtain north of Heber Tower

A stretch of curtain 115 yards long connected Heber and Morden Towers. It has been pierced for gateways in 3 places (HER REF. 1534-1536), and reduced in thickness on the south side of Modern Tower to accommodate a flight of stairs. Close to the bowling green postern is the finest of the surviving turrets on the wall – surviving is a complete passage, about half the original external stairs and most of the machicolations above the loop. The wall itself does not stand quite to the wall walk; beneath the corbels of the turret it is 16 courses high on 2 projecting base courses, and it has a double chamfer along the foot of the external face. SCHEDULED ANCIENT MONUMENT AND LISTED GRADE 1