CITY WALL FROM MULTANGULAR TOWER TO REAR OF NUMBER 8 ST LEONARDS PLACE

CITY WALL FROM MULTANGULAR TOWER TO REAR OF NUMBER 8 ST LEONARDS PLACE, CITY WALLS

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1259292
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:: CITY WALL FROM MULTANGULAR TOWER TO REAR OF NUMBER 8 ST LEONARDS PLACE
Statutory Address:: CITY WALL FROM MULTANGULAR TOWER TO REAR OF NUMBER 8 ST LEONARDS PLACE, CITY WALLS

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Date:: 2002-07-04
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1259292
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Mar-1997
List Entry Name:: CITY WALL FROM MULTANGULAR TOWER TO REAR OF NUMBER 8 ST LEONARDS PLACE
Statutory Address 1:: CITY WALL FROM MULTANGULAR TOWER TO REAR OF NUMBER 8 ST LEONARDS PLACE, CITY WALLS

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CITY WALL FROM MULTANGULAR TOWER TO REAR OF NUMBER 8 ST LEONARDS PLACE, CITY WALLS

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 60029 52117

Details

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

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Legacy System number:: 463052
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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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.