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Latitude: 53.1894 / 53°11'21"N
Longitude: -2.8882 / 2°53'17"W
OS Eastings: 340751
OS Northings: 366183
OS Grid: SJ407661
Mapcode National: GBR 7B.30XX
Mapcode Global: WH88F.L3W7
Plus Code: 9C5V54Q6+QP
Entry Name: Thimblebys Tower
Listing Date: 28 July 1955
Last Amended: 6 August 1998
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1376164
English Heritage Legacy ID: 470158
ID on this website: 101376164
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: Tower
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066SE CITY WALLS
595-1/4/116 Thimbleby's Tower
28/07/55
(Formerly Listed as:
City Walls & Towers incl.
foundations of SE angle Roman
Fortress wall & tower)
GV I
Formerly known as: Wolf's Tower CITY WALLS.
Part of drum tower. Probably C13, partly demolished 1644-6
during the Civil War siege of Chester, probably modified
1702-8 during conversion of the wall walk to a raised
promenade and repaired 1879; altered 1994-5 by P de Figueredo
for Chester City Council. Coursed red sandstone rubble. The
present tower appears to be the outer, east, part of a drum
tower whose upper storeys were destroyed in the Civil War.
Semi-octagonal in plan. 3 loops in the lower chamber and
rib-springers of its former vault at wall-walk level. Some
indication of possible machicolation beneath parapet.
Alterations in 1994-5: removal of stone parapet between
wall-walk and tower and insertion of an oak-framed
polycarbonate screen with tile-hung gable above; steeply
pitched roof rising directly from the tower's parapet masks
its former defensive features and purpose.
(Cheshire Sites and Monuments Record: Collens J: Chester City:
3007/2/12; Bartholomew City Guides: Harris B: Chester:
Edinburgh: 1979-: 142).
Listing NGR: SJ4075166183
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