PART OF CITY WALL FROM PEMBERTONS PARLOUR TO ST MARTINS GATE (NOT INCLUDED)

PART OF CITY WALL FROM PEMBERTONS PARLOUR TO ST MARTINS GATE (NOT INCLUDED), CITY WALLS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1376132
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: PART OF CITY WALL FROM PEMBERTONS PARLOUR TO ST MARTINS GATE (NOT INCLUDED)
Statutory Address:: PART OF CITY WALL FROM PEMBERTONS PARLOUR TO ST MARTINS GATE (NOT INCLUDED), CITY WALLS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1376132
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: PART OF CITY WALL FROM PEMBERTONS PARLOUR TO ST MARTINS GATE (NOT INCLUDED)
Statutory Address 1:: PART OF CITY WALL FROM PEMBERTONS PARLOUR TO ST MARTINS GATE (NOT INCLUDED), 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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Location

Statutory Address:: PART OF CITY WALL FROM PEMBERTONS PARLOUR TO ST MARTINS GATE (NOT INCLUDED), CITY WALLS

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District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 40174 66596

Details

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066NW CITY WALLS 595-1/1/104 Part of City Wall from Pemberton's 28/07/55 Parlour to St Martin's Gate (not included) (Formerly Listed as: City Walls & Towers incl. foundations of SE angle Roman Fortress wall & tower)

GV I

Part of City Wall. Late C11 to early C12 origin, converted to raised promenade 1702-8 with subsequent repairs. Red coursed rubble sandstone. Approx 1m north of the outer face of the wall a retaining wall of large red sandstone blocks probably replaces the earth bank. The south face of the wall has a 15m length with 5 courses of large stones set back a little from the face of adjoining lengths west and east, with a continuous course of rounded corbels immediately below the wall walk and thought to have been the base for the former inner timber palisade. This portion of the wall is approx 80m long; the wall walk is nearly 2m wide. St Martin's Gate 1966, bridging the gap cut to accommodate the dual carriageway of the inner ring road, is not included in this item. (Bartholomew City Guides: Harris B: Chester: Edinburgh: 1979-: 85; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Hubbard E: Cheshire: 1971-: 155).

Listing NGR: SJ4017466596

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Legacy System number:: 470122
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971), 155
Harris, B, 'Bartholomew City Guides' in Chester, (1979), 85

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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.