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© Mr Alan Francis Polaine
IoE Number:
221868
Location:
BAILEY GATE, BAILEY STREET
CASTLE ACRE, KINGS LYNN AND WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK
Photographer:
Mr Alan Francis Polaine
Date Photographed:
01 August 2001
Date listed:
13 April 1987
Date of last amendment:
13 April 1987
Grade
I
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CASTLE ACRE BAILEY STREET
TF 8115
11/1 Bailey Gate
G.V. I
Bailey Gate. C13. Rubble flint, stone dressings. Rectangular on plan with
inner and outer arches, 2 round towers to north. North arch of unmoulded stone
blocks, jambs dying into wall. Interior rere,arch. South side has 2 unmoulded
stone block arches with interior rere'arch, supported by quoined piers.
Grooves for portcullis, hinges of later, no longer extant doors. Forms north
gate of C13 west extension of fortifications of Castle Acre Castle (q.v.).
Scheduled Ancient-Monument County Number 140.