Morgans Mount
MORGANS MOUNT, CITY WALLS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1376134
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Morgans Mount
- Statutory Address:
- MORGANS MOUNT, CITY WALLS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1376134
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Aug-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Morgans Mount
- Statutory Address 1:
- MORGANS MOUNT, CITY WALLS
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:
- MORGANS MOUNT, CITY WALLS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 40242 66626
Details
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066NW CITY WALLS 595-1/1/106 Morgan's Mount 28/07/55 (Formerly Listed as: City Walls & Towers incl. foundations of SE angle Roman Fortress wall & tower)
GV I
Rectangular watch tower and possibly emplacement for Civil War cannon. 1640s. Red sandstone coursed rubble. The tower is rectangular. The chamber has a pair of barred openings with chamfered square divider of stone, facing west and a simple opening facing north. An L-shaped stone stair with 2 flights of 5 stone steps leads to the roof which forms a viewing platform which has a stone parapet surmounted by a simple iron railing, with an L-shaped stone bench at its north-east corner. HISTORICAL NOTE: originally called the Raised Square Platform, this item is said to have been named Morgan's Mount after Capt. William Morgan or his son Edward, supposed commanders of the Royalist garrison during the Civil War. (Collens: Cheshire Sites and Monuments Record: 3007/2/5; Bartholomew City Guides: Harris B: Chester: Edinburgh: 1979-: 85; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Hubbard E: Cheshire: 1971-: 155; Cheshire Sites and Monuments Record: Collens J: Chester City: 3007/1/2).
Listing NGR: SJ4024266626
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470124
- 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
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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