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Latitude: 54.8972 / 54°53'50"N
Longitude: -2.9414 / 2°56'29"W
OS Eastings: 339722
OS Northings: 556238
OS Grid: NY397562
Mapcode National: GBR 7CWT.Z8
Mapcode Global: WH802.S5JK
Plus Code: 9C6VV3W5+VC
Entry Name: Captains Tower and Inner Bailey Walls
Listing Date: 1 June 1949
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1297368
English Heritage Legacy ID: 386582
ID on this website: 101297368
Location: Caldewgate, Cumberland, Cumbria, CA3
County: Cumbria
District: Carlisle
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Carlisle
Traditional County: Cumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria
Church of England Parish: Carlisle St Cuthbert with St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Carlisle
Tagged with: Tower
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671-1/6/13 Captains Tower and Inner Bailey
01/06/49 Walls
GV I
Gate tower and curtain walls. C12 walls, C13 tower with C14
modifications and some C19 alterations; walls partly rebuilt
1821-4 and 1834-5. Squared blocks of red and calciferous
sandstone; walls battered, partly buttressed and partly with
broad pilasters; tower with buttress, pilasters and flat lead
roof.
The inner bailey is roughly triangular comprising north, south
and west walls. The west walls face into the outer bailey and
have a central 3-storey square tower (an earlier blocked
gateway can also be seen in this wall). At the front of the
tower the portcullis slot and platform above have been cut
away (c1919), exposing a pointed archway under 1819 blocked
doorway and windows. Crenellation was also removed in 1819.
The rear of the arch has blind C14 tracery under a Tudor
mullioned window. INTERIOR not inspected.
North wall is extensively buttressed (these partly collapsed
in 1821 and had to be rebuilt). On the angle of the south and
north walls was Queen Mary's Tower which had to be demolished
in 1834-5 and rebuilt in 1835 with a plain crenellated wall.
South walls look C12 with broad pilasters. Behind the west and
south walls are earth embankments to take guns and a broad
stepped ramp gives access to the west wall; beneath the
northern part of the west walls are arched casements. The
north parapet wall retains two C18 24-pounder cannons. For
full details see McCarthy et al (1990).
Listing NGR: NY3972256238
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