Section of wall running west from Bargate to Arundel Tower and then south to point just south of Castle Water Gate. It includes Arundel Tower, Catchcold Tower, Garderobe Tower, The 40 Steps, Castle Water Gate and Castle Vault

Town Walls, Southampton

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1340005
Date first listed:: 14-Jul-1953
List Entry Name:: Section of wall running west from Bargate to Arundel Tower and then south to point just south of Castle Water Gate. It includes Arundel Tower, Catchcold Tower, Garderobe Tower, The 40 Steps, Castle Water Gate and Castle Vault
Statutory Address:: Town Walls, Southampton

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1340005
Date first listed:: 14-Jul-1953
Date of most recent amendment:: 08-Oct-1981
List Entry Name:: Section of wall running west from Bargate to Arundel Tower and then south to point just south of Castle Water Gate. It includes Arundel Tower, Catchcold Tower, Garderobe Tower, The 40 Steps, Castle Water Gate and Castle Vault
Statutory Address 1:: Town Walls, Southampton

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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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Location

Statutory Address:: Town Walls, Southampton

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District:: City of Southampton (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU 41864 11591

Details

SU 4111 3/251

TOWN WALLS Section of wall running west from Bargate to Arundel Tower and then south to point just south of Castle Water Gate. It includes Arundel Tower, Catchcold Tower, Garderobe Tower, The 40 Steps, Castle Water Gate and Castle Vault

(Formerly listed as Section of Town Wall running from the point of junction with the Castle Wall just north of Simnel Street to its eastern termination just west of Bargate)

14.7.53

I Medieval City Walls. It includes the Arundel Tower, a round tower built early to mid C13 with another stage added probably 1377-79 when Sir John Arundel was governor of the Castle; Catchcold tower, an early C15 tower with three gunports, amongst the earliest in Europe. South of Catchcold Tower are the 40 Steps, a series of stone steps built on to the wall in 1850. The Castle stood to the south of this in medieval times.Between two buttresses is the entrance to Castle Vault a C12 rectangular tunnel-vaulted undercroft, with some corbels, which was built to store the King's wines. The barrels were unloaded directly from the quay into the vault. Single round-headed window to south of entrance. Immediately to the south is the Castle Water Gate with a blocked segmental-headed C14 doorway. Scheduled as an ancient monument.

Listing NGR: SU4255313582

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Legacy System number:: 135948
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.