Thimblebys Tower

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SE CITY WALLS 595-1/4/116 Thimbleby's Tower 28/07/55 (Formerly Listed as: City Walls & Towers incl. foundations of SE angle Roman Fortress wall & tower)

GV I

Formerly known as: Wolf's Tower CITY WALLS. Part of drum tower. Probably C13, partly demolished 1644-6 during the Civil War siege of Chester, probably modified 1702-8 during conversion of the wall walk to a raised promenade and repaired 1879; altered 1994-5 by P de Figueredo for Chester City Council. Coursed red sandstone rubble. The present tower appears to be the outer, east, part of a drum tower whose upper storeys were destroyed in the Civil War. Semi-octagonal in plan. 3 loops in the lower chamber and rib-springers of its former vault at wall-walk level. Some indication of possible machicolation beneath parapet. Alterations in 1994-5: removal of stone parapet between wall-walk and tower and insertion of an oak-framed polycarbonate screen with tile-hung gable above; steeply pitched roof rising directly from the tower's parapet masks its former defensive features and purpose. (Cheshire Sites and Monuments Record: Collens J: Chester City: 3007/2/12; Bartholomew City Guides: Harris B: Chester: Edinburgh: 1979-: 142).

Listing NGR: SJ4075166183