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Latitude: 53.1906 / 53°11'26"N
Longitude: -2.8887 / 2°53'19"W
OS Eastings: 340716
OS Northings: 366311
OS Grid: SJ407663
Mapcode National: GBR 7B.30S4
Mapcode Global: WH88F.L2MC
Plus Code: 9C5V54R6+6G
Entry Name: Part of City Wall from Eastgate to Thimblebys Tower and Attached Gravestones
Listing Date: 28 July 1955
Last Amended: 6 August 1998
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1376163
English Heritage Legacy ID: 470157
ID on this website: 101376163
Location: Chester, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, CH1
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Electoral Ward/Division: Chester City
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Chester
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire
Church of England Parish: Chester St John the Baptist
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: City walls
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066SE CITY WALLS
595-1/4/115 Part of City Wall from Eastgate to
28/07/55 Thimbleby's Tower and attached
gravestones
(Formerly Listed as:
City Walls & Towers incl.
foundations of SE angle Roman
Fortress wall & tower)
GV I
Part of east wall of Roman Legionary Fortress and of medieval
city. Late C1 to early C2 and late C11 to early C12, converted
to a raised promenade 1702-8 and repaired in various periods.
Purple-grey sandstone Roman ashlar masonry and softer red
sandstone medieval and later coursed rubble. Some of the Roman
stones may be reused. A slightly projecting plinth, probably
Roman, behind the Trustee Savings Bank. A probably Roman
plinth and 2 courses of ashlar behind the Wesley Methodist
Church (Chester EM, qv), with C19 rebuilding above. Some
refacing in brick. An L-shaped ashlar stair of 14 and 20 steps
towards St John Street. The inner face of the wall is partly
refaced in brick in the northern portion, with blank arches
and 8 circular apertures; a 1960s concrete footbridge from the
wall walk to the Grosvenor shopping precinct.
3 eroded C19 gravestones with a frieze above inscribed
WESLEYAN CHAPEL are attached to the wall, to the rear of the
Wesley Methodist Church.
(Cheshire Sites and Monuments Record: Collens J: Chester City:
3000/1/23).
Listing NGR: SJ4071666311
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