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Latitude: 53.2647 / 53°15'52"N
Longitude: -4.0941 / 4°5'38"W
OS Eastings: 260426
OS Northings: 376230
OS Grid: SH604762
Mapcode National: GBR JN82.7CM
Mapcode Global: WH542.26PL
Plus Code: 9C5Q7W74+V9
Entry Name: Remains of Medieval Town Wall
Listing Date: 23 September 1950
Last Amended: 13 July 2005
Grade: I
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 5633
Building Class: Defence
Also known as: Remains of medieval town wall
ID on this website: 300005633
Location: Behind Nos 40-42 and 38 Church Street.
County: Isle of Anglesey
Town: Beaumaris
Community: Beaumaris (Biwmares)
Community: Beaumaris
Built-Up Area: Beaumaris
Traditional County: Anglesey
Tagged with: City walls
The Borough of Beaumaris was created in 1296 but it was not until after the town was taken back from rebels supporting Owain Glyndwr that a protective wall was actively promoted. In 1407 the burgesses were granted £10 toward encircling the town with a bank and ditch, but it was quickly superseded by a town wall, underway by 1414. Sections of wall on the sea front were repaired in the 1530s, but subsequently the town wall appears to have fallen into decay. John Speed's map of 1610 suggests that the only complete section by that time faced the sea and therefore protected the town from its mostly perennial threat. The West or Water Gate at the end of Castle Street was still standing in 1785 and a long section of wall to its N was only taken down on the late C19 when Margaret Street was built. The extant section behind Church Street and Rating Row is the only substantial section of the wall to have survived.
A section of rubble wall approximately 20m long, 3m high, and 1.75m thick. It is broken by an inserted arched entrance to a cottage. The W end abuts the rear of 44 Church Street.
Listed grade I for its outstanding historic interest as the only surviving substantial section of the medieval town wall.
Sceduled Ancient Monument AN123.
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