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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 15 NW 2243 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Medieval City Wall between Northgate and Westgate |
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Summary
During the late 14th century with the threat of possible invasion during the Hundred Years' War with France, the City had to rebuild and drastically repair the City walls which had been in existance since Roman times and had fallen into serious disrepair. The stretch of wall between Northgate and Westgate had been largely rebuilt between 1380 and 1390
| Grid Reference: | TR 1481 5819 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR15NW |
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| Parish: | CANTERBURY, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- TOWN WALL (Medieval - 1378 AD? to 1402 AD?)
Full description
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During the late 14th century, c. 1378, with the threat of possible invasion during the Hundred Years' War with France, the City had to rebuild and drastically repair the City walls which had been in existance since Roman times and had fallen into serious disrepair, or in even largely robbed. The stretch of wall between Northgate and Westgate had been largely rebuilt between 1380 and 1390 and was financed partly from murage grants bestowed on the City by the Crown and partly by money from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Simon of Sudbury. The 'Long Wall' Survey of c. 1402, shows the City virtually completely re-walled at that time, except for a short stretch by the river Stour between Northgate and Westgate. West Gate had been built by c. 1380. Part of this stretch of wall were demolished along with Northgate between the second half of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Cross, R., Canterbury: St Radigund's Street (Machine readable data file). SKE30598.
Jenkins, F., Jenkins Archive Material (Unpublished document). SKE30008.
Cozens, W., 1928, Annual Report, Canterbury Archaeological Society (Unpublished document). SKE30775.
Jenkins, F, 1964, The Stour Valley Research Group (Unpublished document). SKE30345.
Frere, SS, Stow, S, and Bennett, P, 1982, Excavations on the Roman and Medieval Defences of Canterbury. (Monograph). SKE28530.
Anderson, I., 1989, Nos 1a-4 Pound Lane (Article in serial). SKE30888.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | --- | Monograph: Frere, SS, Stow, S, and Bennett, P. 1982. Excavations on the Roman and Medieval Defences of Canterbury.. |
| --- | Unpublished document: Jenkins, F.. Jenkins Archive Material. |
| --- | Unpublished document: Jenkins, F. 1964. The Stour Valley Research Group. |
| --- | Machine readable data file: Cross, R.. Canterbury: St Radigund's Street. |
| --- | Unpublished document: Cozens, W.. 1928. Annual Report, Canterbury Archaeological Society. |
| --- | Article in serial: Anderson, I.. 1989. Nos 1a-4 Pound Lane. Canterbury's Archaeology 1986-7. |
