York Historic Environment Record

Tower 12 (NG 59705150. Pl. 24) is rectangular, 10 ft. 5 ins. wide and projecting 5 ft. There is a plinth, and the roughly built facing of stones of varied sizes is not bonded into the main wall. A brick patch in the S.W. face may mark the position of an arrow slit. This is probably the tower near Micklegate Bar on the N. said to have been in ruins in 1494. (fn. 52)

Beyond Tower 12 the wall has clearly been frequently rebuilt and the part adjoining Tower 13 was rebuilt at the same time as that tower. At NG 59675152 between the ninth and tenth buttresses N.W. of Tower 12 is a projection in part with a plinth marked as a tower on maps of 1750 and 1772.

An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York, Volume 2, the Defences. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1972.

NMR Information
A rectangular interval tower, part of the city walls, built in the early 14th century and restored in the 1830s.

Sources
Field report on SX 67 SW 253 - 01-MAR-1989 101

613515 Architectural Survey Investigation by RCHME/EH Architectural Survey

BF061946 CITY WALLS, YORK File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued.

RCHME, 1972, An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York, Volume II The Defences (Monograph). SYO63.

NMR, 2019, NMR data (Digital archive). SYO2214.