Newcastle town wall, Andrew Tower
Newcastle town wall, Andrew Tower
HER Number
1541
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Newcastle town wall, Andrew 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
The two available illustrations show this tower to have resembled the others on the west side of the defences, i.e. semi-circular, with oversailing corbels on the exterior, a crenellated parapet, and loop(s). Because it stood on the edge of St. Andrew's churchyard, the vaulted ground floor room had been used as a charnel house for many years before its demolition, with part of the curtain, in 1818 to enlarge the burying area. SCHEDULED ANCIENT MONUMENT
Easting
424500
Northing
564400
Grid Reference
NZ424500564400
Sources
<< HER 1541 >> Illustration, M.A. Richardson, 1842, Local Historian's Table Book, Historical Division, II, 256
Illustration, T.M. Richardson, 1880, Memorials of Old Newcastle-upon-Tyne, pl. xx
C.H.H. Blair, 1937, The Walls of Newcastle...illustrated...by George Bouchier Richardson, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XIV, p. 127 and pl. xviii.1
Illustration, T.M. Richardson, 1880, Memorials of Old Newcastle-upon-Tyne, pl. xx
C.H.H. Blair, 1937, The Walls of Newcastle...illustrated...by George Bouchier Richardson, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XIV, p. 127 and pl. xviii.1