Latitude: 53.187 / 53°11'13"N
Longitude: -2.8879 / 2°53'16"W
OS Eastings: 340763
OS Northings: 365917
OS Grid: SJ407659
Mapcode National: GBR 7B.3705
Mapcode Global: WH88F.M502
Plus Code: 9C5V54P6+RR
Entry Name: Part of City Wall from Barnabys Tower to Tower East of Bridgegate
Listing Date: 28 July 1955
Last Amended: 6 August 1998
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1376169
English Heritage Legacy ID: 470163
ID on this website: 101376169
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)
SJ4065NE CITY WALLS 595-1/6/123 Part of City Wall from Barnaby's 28/07/55 Tower to tower east of Bridgegate (Formerly Listed as: City Walls & Towers incl. foundations of SE angle Roman Fortress wall & tower)
GV I
East part of south side of City Walls. Late C11 to early C12, converted to raised promenade 1702-8 and repaired during various periods. Coursed red sandstone rubble. This part of the City Walls forms a retaining wall, ground level on the inner side being equal to that of the wall walk, but on the outer side 7m below the wall walk. The wall is partly built on outcropping sandstone bedrock, with some 24 courses of stone beneath the parapet. The wall walk descends by 6 flights of 3 stone steps along its angled south-east corner, known as the Wishing Steps, west of which the wall faces the River Dee. A sunk panel of yellow sandstone is inscribed THE EMBANKMENT OF THE RIVER FROM SOUTER'S LANE TO THIS POINT WAS FORMED AND PLANTED WITH TREES AT THE EXPENSE OF CHARLES BROWN, MAYOR OF
THIS CITY 1880-1. Brown was, with his brother, proprietor of the early department store Browns of Chester. The Recorder's Steps which lead down from this length of the walls are listed separately. This length of the City Walls is approx 275m long, and the wall walk 2m wide.
Listing NGR: SJ4076365917
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