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Warwick Town Wall
In the civil parish of Warwick.
In the historic county of Warwickshire (Modern Authority of Warwickshire, 1974 county of Warwickshire).
Saxon earthwork defences rebuilt in stone. Receive murage grants in 1305 and 1317. Two, of originally three, gates survive, both surmounted by chapels, and short piece of wall.
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.
This site is a scheduled
monument protected by law.
This site is a
Grade 1 listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 307354)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SP28416499
PastScape number;
333662, 333661, 333459, 333663
County Sites and Monuments Record number; 1923, 1924, 1925
- Web site links
- Books
- Creighton, O.H. and Higham, R.A., 2005, Medieval Town Walls (Stroud: Tempus) p57, 60, 93, 145, 159, 176, 266
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p263
Salter, Mike, 1992, Castles and Moated Mansions of Warwickshire (Malvern) p51
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 p487
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) p123
Knowles, David and Hadcock, R Neville, 1971, Medieval religious houses in England and Wales (Longman) p442
Pugh R.B. (ed), 1969, VCH Warwickshire Vol8 p537, 468
Pevsner, Nikolaus and Wedgwood, Alexandra, 1966, The buildings of England: Warwickshire p456-7
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co) p222
Field, W., 1970 [orginal edn 1815], An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Town and Castle of Warwick (E P Publishing)
- Journal Articles
- Webster, L.E. and Cherry, J., 1980, Medieval Archaeology Vol24 p256
Klingelhofer, E., 1976-7, 'Barrack Street Excavations, Warwick, 1972' Transactions of the Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society Vol88 p87-104
Klingelhofer, E., 1975, 'Evidence of town planning in late Saxon Warwick' Midland History Vol3 p1-10
(Klingelhofer), 1973, Medieval Archaeology Vol17 p171
Wilson, D.M. and Hurst, D.G., 1968, Medieval Archaeology Vol12 p186
Farr, M. and Taylor, S.J., 1967, West Midlands Archaeology Vol10 p24
(Powell), 1966, Medieval Archaeology Vol10 p200-1
- Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
- Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p461
Toulmin-Smith, Lucy (ed), 1910, The itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543 (Bell and Sons; London) Vol2 p40
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