Part Of City Wall From Barnabys Tower To Tower East Of Bridgegate

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4065NE CITY WALLS 595-1/6/123 Part of City Wall from Barnaby's 28/07/55 Tower to tower east of Bridgegate (Formerly Listed as: City Walls & Towers incl. foundations of SE angle Roman Fortress wall & tower)

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East part of south side of City Walls. Late C11 to early C12, converted to raised promenade 1702-8 and repaired during various periods. Coursed red sandstone rubble. This part of the City Walls forms a retaining wall, ground level on the inner side being equal to that of the wall walk, but on the outer side 7m below the wall walk. The wall is partly built on outcropping sandstone bedrock, with some 24 courses of stone beneath the parapet. The wall walk descends by 6 flights of 3 stone steps along its angled south-east corner, known as the Wishing Steps, west of which the wall faces the River Dee. A sunk panel of yellow sandstone is inscribed THE EMBANKMENT OF THE RIVER FROM SOUTER'S LANE TO THIS POINT WAS FORMED AND PLANTED WITH TREES AT THE EXPENSE OF CHARLES BROWN, MAYOR OF

THIS CITY 1880-1. Brown was, with his brother, proprietor of the early department store Browns of Chester. The Recorder's Steps which lead down from this length of the walls are listed separately. This length of the City Walls is approx 275m long, and the wall walk 2m wide.

Listing NGR: SJ4076365917