Thought to derive its name from the Hospital of the BVM, which stood close by inside the wall. The construction of this stretch of wall, and presumably also the tower, through the grounds of the hospital had begun by 1290. The tower was semi-circular in plan. In 1827 it formed "part of a genteel dwelling-house, and its circular walls may still be seen in a good state of preservation". Demolished in 1844 at the same time as the hospital, according to Holmes, in 1848 "for the railway works", according to G.B. Richardson. Its site is beneath the eastern half of the Central Station. Dated C13th.

Brand describes this stretch of curtain as c. 118 yards long. Like the towers at either end of it, it was demolished 1848/9 to make way for the construction of the Central Station. Its site is now buried under the eastern half of the station. Dated C13-14th.

Sited c. 10 yards west of the western re-entrant. It was of the normal semi- circular plan, with rib-vaulted chamber, 19 ft x 10 ft. The re-entrant presumably dates from c. 1311, the date of the decision to re-direct the wall, so this tower could have been built either side of 1300. In 1711 the Company of Wallers, Bricklayers and Plasterers removed the tower's ruined parapet, and built over the vault "a capacious apartment of brick". The Company then left the White Friars Tower and moved in here, adding a platform and steps in 1732. They apparently continued to meet here until the tower was demolished in 1849. Dated C13-14th.

Sited at the north end of a long stretch of curtain running south to Close Gate, just south of the western re-entrant angle of the town wall and at the west end of the street called the Postern. Presumably dated from after 1311 when the wall was redirected south from the re-entrant. Thought to have been the point of exit through the wall when the townspeople chased away the Scots in 1342. "Though not ranked as one of the great gates of the town was yet greater than only a postern" wrote GBR, who showed it with some form of projecting tower; MAR gave it a portcullis. Above the gate, on the town side, were carved shields of arms of the town, Clavering and Shafto, and an inscription recording the repair of the wall in 1745.(2) Though MAR said the postern was removed in 1805 to widen the thoroughfare, it was still there, without its arch, to be recorded by GBR in 1847 when final demolition may even then have been taking place. Dated C14th.

Abuilt c1280. lthough the northern 51 m of this stretch of curtain was demolished 1845-49 for the new railway, the rest - with one break - survives "for 131 m, and stands in places 9.20 m high with its wall walk and part of the parapet". Holmes declared there were once 2 turrets on this stretch, but these are not shown on Beckman's plan of 1683. Recent examination has detected 33 constructional phases. Of these 1-8 form the earliest masonry, possibly a low wall with parapet. Builds 9-12 raised the wall by c. 2 m, though whether after a temporary pause or as an afterthought is not clear; nos. 13-14 & 16 completed the medieval work. Nos. 17-19 represent two major mid-C17 repairs of breaches made by a mine and artillery during the Civil War. Holes by the Federation Brewery, later made good, and restoration in 1952 and the late 1980s account for the other phases. Towers on this stretch were originally one pattern rectangular on inner side with semi-circular outer side. Dated C14th.

This tower was sited at the top of the steep slope above Close Gate , and was probably built in the first half of the C14. It was strategically placed to command both the bank down to the Close Gate and also the leveller ground towards Denton Tower. Named after White Friars, whose precinct it stood next to. It was unique among the towers on the Newcastle wall in having an octagonal ground floor beneath a circular second storey, the two separated by "a bold moulding". In the C17 or 18th century a mullion and transom window was inserted in the west wall of the upper room. At one time, 18th century or earlier ?, the masons had their meeting hall in the upper room, the companies of bricklayers and mettors below. The masons transferred to Plummer Tower in 1742 while the bricklayers moved to Denton Tower in 1711. In 1776 the tower was leased to Isaac Cookson for 21 years, "with liberty to make a battlement and way from his summer-house to the top of the said tower". He converted it into an icehouse.³ The tower was demolished 1841-1843/4 by Amor Spoor for the construction of Hanover Street. Dated C14th.

A stretch of wall, approximately 26 m in length, survives on the slope above the Close, much of it standing to the height of the parapet walk (here "the Breakneck Stairs"). Broken off some 12 m south of Hanover Street in c. 1842. This stretch is in 2 sections, with different alignments and thicknesses (the south 3m, the north 2m). Could this have resulted from the south piece being laid out first as part of Close Gate, and the north then added, on stepped footings, up the slope, with the upper courses carried across the junction of the two? In general it can be said that this stretch of wall dates from the first half of the C14. Dated C14th.

Close Gate, across the Close, was built in the mid C14. The only view of it (and that unreliable) shows a 3 storey tower pierced by a single central passage, without either a pedestrian gate or flanking guardrooms. Note however that a lease of 1770 records 3 lofts or rooms in the tower upon Close Gate. A C16 reference to the purchase of a rope for its drawbridge suggests there was a ditch west of, or a drawbridge pit beneath, the gate itself. Damaged in 1644, it was repaired in 1648; and it was one of the gates ordered to be built up in 1745. In 1713 the Company of sail-makers met here. When the prisoners had to be removed from the Magazine tower after the Tyne Bridge was washed away in 1771 the Close Gate was used as a temporary prison. It was finally demolished in 1797. Dated C14th.

Some 36.7 m of the curtain were found to survive from a short distance south of Close Gate to the Riverside Tower. This stretch was built in the mid C14 across reclaimed land and into the river. At its north end it was 2.05 m wide, towards the south where it had been remodelled at the time of the addition of the Riverside Tower it was 2.8 m broad. There was a single chamfered plinth on the outer (west) face. While the extreme north end may have been cut back for road widening in or after 1835 the rest survived to some height until demolition in 1867 when Cookson built a warehouse straddling the wall between the Close and the river. Though there is documentary evidence for a ditch outside the town wall it is uncertain whether archaeological evidence was found for it. Dated C14th.

An early C15 addition at the point where the town wall reached the Tyne, and of one build with the short stretch of wall along the river's edge (SMR 1508) The tower was rectangular in plan, measured 6.54 m N-S x 6 m E-W externally, and had S, E and W walls up to 1.10 m thick, a N wall only 0.74 m.³ After the Civil War, in the late C17 and 18th century, it was the meeting place first of the Housecarpenters Company (to 1713), and then of the Company of Sailmakers. Though shown by the Bros Buck in 1745 as freestanding and crenellated, Brand reported only part of it remaining in 1789, and Fraser considers that the north and east walls had certainly disappeared by 1835. Its south wall was rebuilt to incorporate part of a timber landing stage and survived until 1867. The credibility and date of origin of Richardson's view, showing the tower's upper floors as rebuilt in brick, and with pitched roof and external wooden stair, are obscure. Dated C15th.