Anglian Tower
ANGLIAN TOWER, MUSEUM GARDENS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1257157
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Anglian Tower
- Statutory Address:
- ANGLIAN TOWER, MUSEUM GARDENS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1257157
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Anglian Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- ANGLIAN TOWER, MUSEUM GARDENS
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ANGLIAN TOWER, MUSEUM GARDENS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- York (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 60045 52135
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 464198
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York II Defences, (1972), 111
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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