Listed Building: CITY WALL FROM MULTANGULAR TOWER TO REAR OF NUMBER 8 ST LEONARDS PLACE (1259292)

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Grade I
NHLE 1259292
Date assigned 14 June 1954
Date last amended

Description

YORK SE6052SW CITY WALLS 1112-1/27/3 City Wall from Multangular Tower to 14/06/54 rear of No.8 St Leonard's Place (Formerly Listed as: The City Walls) GV I Defensive wall approximately 75 metres long from the Multangular Tower, Museum Gardens (qv) to rear of No.8 St Leonard's Place (qv). 1250-70; excavated 1969. Magnesian limestone ashlar, underbuilt in places with cobbles. Embattled wall varying in height from 3.5 to 5.0 metres, with sloped copings. Inserted doorway with corbelled lintel adjacent to Multangular Tower. 7 squat buttresses with offsets on outer side of wall, one and traces of other on inside: wallwalk approximately 0.5 metres wide. (An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York: The Defences: HMSO: 1972-: 111). Listing NGR: SE6002952117

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Grid reference SE 6002 5211 (point)
Map sheet SE65SW

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Nov 30 2021 9:27PM

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