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Latitude: 53.1877 / 53°11'15"N
Longitude: -2.8875 / 2°53'14"W
OS Eastings: 340794
OS Northings: 365987
OS Grid: SJ407659
Mapcode National: GBR 7B.314B
Mapcode Global: WH88F.M46L
Plus Code: 9C5V54Q7+32
Entry Name: Barnabys Tower
Listing Date: 28 July 1955
Last Amended: 6 August 1998
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1376168
English Heritage Legacy ID: 470162
ID on this website: 101376168
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)
SJ4065NE CITY WALLS
595-1/6/122 Barnaby's Tower
28/07/55
(Formerly Listed as:
City Walls & Towers incl.
foundations of SE angle Roman
Fortress wall & tower)
GV I
Tower at south-east corner of City Walls. Probably C13,
damaged 1644-6 during the Civil War, converted to feature of
the raised promenade of the wall walk 1702-8 and repaired
during various periods. Coursed red sandstone rubble. The
bastion forms a 3-sided projection from the wall, its platform
level with the wall-walk. There is no evidence of any chamber
beneath that level. There is mock-crenellation; the tower
level and parapet were altered at the expense of Councillor
Charles Brown 1879-80.
The tower stands on an outcrop of red sandstone.
(Cheshire Sites and Monuments Record: Collens J: Chester City:
3007/2/14; Improvement Committee Minutes: Chester City
Council: 3/9/1879: 1879-).
Listing NGR: SJ4079465987
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