Wall On The East Side Of Church Hill, Returned Along Meeching Rise

TQ 4401 SW, 769-1/7/10

NEWHAVEN, CHURCH HILL (East side), Wall on the East side of Church Hill, returned along Meeching Rise

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Wall. C18 and C19, repaired C20. Unknapped flint, some brick quoins and coping, repairs in brick and cement. Wall to Church Hill about 2m high, attached cast-iron plaque, figure-of-eight-shape, inscribed in raised lettering 'FP/ft/14'; raking buttress at northern end, stepped brick coping and cement plinth to left of entrance to Meeching House (not included) with late C20 brick piers and depressed brick arch; wall continued right with 20cm high curved brick buttresses to plinth, and returned to Meeching Rise. Here the wall is buttresses and pierced by openings to Moonrakers (not included) and Applegarth (not included), thereafter with tile offsets and hump-backed cement and pebble coping. There is an unidentified blocked-up opening in the wall where it terminates opposite the entrance to the Church of St Michael and All Angels (qv). This was part of the boundary wall of the C16 Meeching Place estate which was given to the Convent of St Mary in 1895; (the house was demolished and the convent has since removed elsewhere). Included for group value.

Listing NGR: TQ4428301179