City Wall From Multangular Tower To Rear Of Number 8 St Leonards Place is a Grade I listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1954. A Medieval City wall.
City Wall From Multangular Tower To Rear Of Number 8 St Leonards Place
- WRENN ID
- vacant-hammer-thunder
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- York
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1954
- Type
- City wall
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
YORK
SE6052SW CITY WALLS 1112-1/27/3 City Wall from Multangular Tower to 14/06/54 rear of No.8 St Leonard's Place (Formerly Listed as: The City Walls)
GV I
Defensive wall approximately 75 metres long from the Multangular Tower, Museum Gardens (qv) to rear of No.8 St Leonard's Place (qv). 1250-70; excavated 1969. Magnesian limestone ashlar, underbuilt in places with cobbles. Embattled wall varying in height from 3.5 to 5.0 metres, with sloped copings. Inserted doorway with corbelled lintel adjacent to Multangular Tower. 7 squat buttresses with offsets on outer side of wall, one and traces of other on inside: wallwalk approximately 0.5 metres wide. (An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York: The Defences: HMSO: 1972-: 111).
Listing NGR: SE6002952117
Detailed Attributes
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.