Anglian Tower is a Grade I listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1954. Church.

Anglian Tower

WRENN ID: graven-flint-root
Grade: I
Local Planning Authority: York
Country: England
Date first listed: 14 June 1954
Type: Church
Source: Historic England listing

Description

YORK

SE6052SW MUSEUM GARDENS 1112-1/27/774 Anglian Tower 14/06/54

GV I

Formerly known as: The Roman Room MUSEUM GARDENS. Defensive tower. Probably C7 AD on Roman footings; excavated in 1969. Rough dressed oolitic limestone with brick vaulted roof. Rectangular on plan, approximately 4.5 metres high. Original access by means of narrow segment-arched doorways in both returns. Front and rear broken by round-arched vault of C19 tunnel, during the excavations for which the tower, subsumed within the ramparts of the medieval walls, was rediscovered in 1839. (An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York: RCHME: The Defences: HMSO: 1972-: 111).

Listing NGR: SE6049052070

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