Tyne and Wear HER(1522): Newcastle town wall, curtain west of Stank Tower - Details
1522
Newcastle
Newcastle town wall, curtain west of Stank Tower
Newcastle
NZ26SW
Defence
Town Defences
Town Wall
Medieval
C13
Demolished Building
There are said to have been two turrets on this stretch of curtain between Stank Tower and Gunner Tower. It was presumably cleared away in c. 1847 (the same time as Stank Tower) for the making of Neville Street.
2463
6390
NZ24636390
<< HER 1522 >> R. Welford, 1887, The Walls of Newcastle in 1638, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XII, 230
S. Holmes, 1896, The Town Walls of Newcastle upon Tyne, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XVIII, 13
Llustration, C.H.H. Blair, 1937, The Walls of Newcastle...illustrated...by George Bouchier Richardson, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XIV, pl. xiv.1