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Newcastle upon Tyne town defences: section of curtain wall including Sallyport or Wall Knoll Tower is a surviving fragment of Newcastle's medieval town wall, a defensive structure that originally enclosed the settlement in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The curtain wall section incorporates the Sallyport, also known as Wall Knoll Tower, which functioned as a defensive tower and controlled gateway within the fortification system. This monument represents the substantial stone fortifications that were characteristic of prosperous medieval English towns, reflecting Newcastle's commercial and strategic importance during the medieval period. The surviving remains preserve evidence of the town's medieval urban development and its defensive architecture, forming part of the broader circuit of walls that once surrounded the medieval town.
Newcastle upon Tyne town defences: section of curtain wall including Sallyport or Wall Knoll Tower is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019811. View the official record →
Newcastle upon Tyne town defences: section of curtain wall including Sallyport or Wall Knoll Tower is a surviving fragment of Newcastle's medieval town wall, a defensive structure that originally enclosed the settlement in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019811.
Newcastle upon Tyne town defences: section of curtain wall including Sallyport or Wall Knoll Tower is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1019811.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Newcastle Swing Bridge (0.5 km), Newcastle upon Tyne town defences: section of curtain wall including Closegate and Water Tower (0.8 km), DUNSTON STAITHS (2.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Newcastle upon Tyne town defences: section of curtain wall including Sallyport or Wall Knoll Tower's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Newcastle upon Tyne town defences: section of curtain wall including Sallyport or Wall Knoll Tower stands on Pennine Middle Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Middle Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Moscovian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.