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Alnwick Town Wall
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Alnewyke; Bondgate; Hotspur Gateway; Pottergate; Clayport; Narrowgate
In the civil parish of Alnwick.
In the historic county of Northumberland (Modern Authority of Northumberland, 1974 county of Northumberland).
Grade 1 listed Bondgate (Hotspur Gateway) and section of wall remain of medival defences, Pottergate Tower is C18 rebuild of medieval gate and may incorporate some medieval fabric. Bondgate is East gate in former town walls, polygonal on each side of arched thoroughfare on outside, straight front to west. Not crenellated. Rough ashlar. Three stages. Central segmental. archway with vaulted passage on 4 wide ribs. East face: remains of large corbels in centre, panel below with much faded lion rampant by a sculptor named Matthew, narrow lookouts. West face; slight set back above 2nd stage, a plain 2 light mullion window above the archway and a blocked cross window to left. There are portcullis slits to the outer arch. Licence to crenellate issued in 1434.
This site has been described as a;
Urban Defence.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Masonry ruins/remnants remains.
A Royal licence
to crenellate was
granted in 1434 June 1.
This site is a scheduled
monument protected by law.
This site is a
Grade 1 listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 235619, 235744, 235835)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NU18851322
PastScape number;
7110, 7180
County Sites and Monuments Record number; N4497, N4830, N4832 & N4831
- Web site links
- Books
- Creighton, O.H. and Higham, R.A., 2005, Medieval Town Walls (Stroud: Tempus) p87,139,141,143,192,269
Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Keepdate Publishing)
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p170-2
Adam Nicolson and Peter Morter, 1989, Prospects of England: 2000 years seen through twelve English towns pp36-47
Bond, C.J., 1987, 'Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Defences' in Schofield, J. and Leech, R. (eds) Urban Archaeology in Britain (CBA Research Report) p92-116
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p362
Graham, Frank, 1976, The Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Frank Graham) p28-30
Barley, M.W., 1975, 'Town Defences in England and Wales after 1066' in Barley (ed) Medieval Towns in England and Wales (CBA research reports) pp57-71
Turner, H.L., 1971, Town Defences in England and Wales (London) p97-8
Conzen, M.R.G. 1969 (2edn), Alnwick, Northumberland, A Study in Town Plan Analysis (London: Institute of British Geographers 27)
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co) p236
Tomlinson, W.W., 1888, Comprehensive Guide to Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p374
Tate, George., 1866-69, The History of the Borough, Castle, and Barony of Alnwick (Alnwick) Vol1 p236-44 Vol2 p43-4
Hodgson Hinde, J., 1858, A History of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
Anon, 1822, Descriptive and Historical View of Alnwick (Alnwick) p125
- Journal Articles
- Hodgson, J.C., 1916, 'List of Ruined Towers, Chapels, etc., in Northumberland; compiled about 1715 by John Warburton, Somerset Herald, aided by John Horsley' Archaeologia Aeliana [ser3] Vol13 p3
- Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents
- This section is far from complete and the secondary
sources should be consulted for full references.)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls (1429-36) p345
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