Thimblebys Tower
THIMBLEBYS TOWER, CITY WALLS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1376164
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Thimblebys Tower
- Statutory Address:
- THIMBLEBYS TOWER, CITY WALLS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1376164
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Aug-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Thimblebys Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- THIMBLEBYS TOWER, 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:
- THIMBLEBYS 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 40751 66183
Details
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066SE CITY WALLS 595-1/4/116 Thimbleby's Tower 28/07/55 (Formerly Listed as: City Walls & Towers incl. foundations of SE angle Roman Fortress wall & tower)
GV I
Formerly known as: Wolf's Tower CITY WALLS. Part of drum tower. Probably C13, partly demolished 1644-6 during the Civil War siege of Chester, probably modified 1702-8 during conversion of the wall walk to a raised promenade and repaired 1879; altered 1994-5 by P de Figueredo for Chester City Council. Coursed red sandstone rubble. The present tower appears to be the outer, east, part of a drum tower whose upper storeys were destroyed in the Civil War. Semi-octagonal in plan. 3 loops in the lower chamber and rib-springers of its former vault at wall-walk level. Some indication of possible machicolation beneath parapet. Alterations in 1994-5: removal of stone parapet between wall-walk and tower and insertion of an oak-framed polycarbonate screen with tile-hung gable above; steeply pitched roof rising directly from the tower's parapet masks its former defensive features and purpose. (Cheshire Sites and Monuments Record: Collens J: Chester City: 3007/2/12; Bartholomew City Guides: Harris B: Chester: Edinburgh: 1979-: 142).
Listing NGR: SJ4075166183
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470158
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Harris, B, Bartholomew City Guides in Chester, (1979), 142
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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