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© Mr Brian Haigh
IoE Number:
263573
Location:
TOWER IN BARWICK PARK,
BARWICK, SOUTH SOMERSET, SOMERSET
Photographer:
Mr Brian Haigh
Date Photographed:
27 August 1999
Date listed:
19 April 1961
Date of last amendment:
30 August 1984
Grade
II
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ST51SE BARWICK CP LONG LANE (off Rexe's Hollow)
5/15 Jack the Treacle Eater
(formerly listed is tower in
Barwick Park)
19.4.61
GV II
Folly. Circa 1775. Local and Ham stone rubble and ashlar. Rough rubble arch about 5-metres high, crowned with
circular tower in cut and squared stone, having battlemented quasi-parapet and conical stone roof surmounted by lead
statuette (a winged Mercury). Blocked opening in side of tower with part only of a rough stair thereto. The East
boundary marker, one of four, of the Barwick Park estate, probably erected by John Newman; 'Jack' was a local runner
who carried family messages to London, who was said to have trained on treacle. (Barbara Jones, Follies and Grottoes,
Constable 1974).