ROMAN WALL

ROMAN WALL, CHURCH WALK

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1262704
Date first listed:: 07-Dec-1966
List Entry Name:: ROMAN WALL
Statutory Address:: ROMAN WALL, CHURCH WALK

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Date:: 2001-05-06
Reference:: IOE01/04060/24
Rights:: © Mr John Scarbro. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1262704
Date first listed:: 07-Dec-1966
Date of most recent amendment:: 25-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: ROMAN WALL
Statutory Address 1:: ROMAN WALL, CHURCH WALK

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:: ROMAN WALL, CHURCH WALK

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Lincolnshire
District:: East Lindsey (District Authority)
Parish:: Horncastle
National Grid Reference:: TF2580169494

Details

TF 2569 6/34 7.12.66

HORNCASTLE CHURCH WALK (south side) Roman Wall (formerly listed under St. Mary's Square)

G.V. I

Section of south curtilage wall and south-west bastion of Roman settlement. Late C3-mid C4. Spilsby sandstone rubble. Section of rubble core of wall running westwards up to 2.83 metres high and 12.25 metres long. Another section beyond 2.20 metres high and 13.20 metres long. Section of rubble core of south-west bastion to west, up to 2.20 metres high and 4.60 metres long. Source: Field and Hurst, pp.49-50, p.85. Scheduled as an Ancient Monument, No. 44.

Listing NGR: TF2580169494

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Legacy System number:: 434249
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.