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© Mr Trevor Defferd
IoE Number:
135948
Location:
SECTION OF TOWN WALL RUNNING FROM THE POINT OF JUNCTION WITH THE CASTLE WALL JUST NORTH OF SIMNEL STREET TO ITS EASTERN TERMINATION JUST WEST OF BARGATE, TOWN WALLS
SOUTHAMPTON, SOUTHAMPTON, HAMPSHIRE
Photographer:
Mr Trevor Defferd
Date Photographed:
01 August 2004
Date listed:
14 July 1953
Date of last amendment:
14 July 1953
Grade
II
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TOWN WALLS
1.
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Section of wall running
west from Bargate to
Arundel Tower and then
south to point just south
of Castle Water Gate.
It includes Arundel Tower,
Catchcold Tower,
Garderobe Tower, The 40
Steps, Castle Water Gate
and Castle Vault
(formerly listed as
Section of Town Wall
running from the point
of junction with the
Castle Wall just north
of Simnel Street to its
eastern termination just
west of Bargate)
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2.
Mediaeval City Walls. It includes the Arundel Tower, a round tower built
early to Mid C13 with another stage added probably 1377-9 when Sir John Arundel
was governor of the Castle Catchcold tower, an early C15 tower with 3 gunports,
amongst the earliest in Europe. South of Catchcold Tower are the 40 Steps,
a series of stone steps built on to the wall in 1850. The Castle stood to
the south of this in mediaeval times. Between 2 buttresses is the entrance
to Castle Vault a C12 rectangular tunnel-vaulted undercroft, with some corbels,
which was built to store the King's wines. The barrels were unloaded directly
from the quay into the vault. Single round-headed window to south of entrance.
Immediately to the south is the Castle Water Gate with a blocked segmental-headed
C14 doorway. Scheduled as an ancient monument.