Part of City Wall From Northgate to Phoenix Tower
PART OF CITY WALL FROM NORTHGATE TO PHOENIX TOWER, CITY WALLS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1376136
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Part of City Wall From Northgate to Phoenix Tower
- Statutory Address:
- PART OF CITY WALL FROM NORTHGATE TO PHOENIX TOWER, CITY WALLS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1376136
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Aug-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Part of City Wall From Northgate to Phoenix Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- PART OF CITY WALL FROM NORTHGATE TO PHOENIX TOWER, CITY WALLS
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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:
- PART OF CITY WALL FROM NORTHGATE TO PHOENIX TOWER, 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 40504 66699
Details
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066NW CITY WALLS 595-1/1/109 Part of City Wall from Northgate to 28/07/55 Phoenix Tower (Formerly Listed as: City Walls & Towers incl. foundations of SE angle Roman Fortress wall & tower)
GV I
Length of City Walls comprising masonry of the east half of the north wall of the Roman legionary fortress. Late C1 to early C2 and possibly later, medieval wall late C11 to early C12 converted to a raised promenade 1702 to 1708 and spasmodically repaired. Purple-grey Bunter sandstone Roman ashlar and medieval and later softer red sandstone coursed rubble. The features of exceptional interest are 2 full-height portions of the probably Hadrianic Roman wall-face to the then turf rampart, behind. The west portion of the masonry is based on bedrock, up to 13 courses high and 35 ashlar stones long and has the moulded Roman cornice immediately beneath the former Roman and, at the same level, present parapet. The east portion is up to 11 courses high and 42 ashlar stones long. The wall faces the Shropshire Union Canal in a rock-cut deepening of the former Roman and medieval ditch. There may be some Roman ashlar in the canted north-east corner of the wall adjacent to Phoenix Tower (qv). The Roman wall-face is battered, supposedly having gradually moved back as the turf rampart behind it contracted. The medieval and post medieval masonry shows numerous repairs. This length of the City Wall is approx 375m long and 2m wide. (Strickland TJ: Roman Chester: Nelson: 1984-1986: PASSIM; Cheshire Sites and Monuments Record: Collens J: Chester City: 3000/1/7; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Hubbard E: Cheshire: 1971-: 155).
Listing NGR: SJ4050466699
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470126
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971), 155
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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