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Monument details

Summary

A stretch of ragstone ashlar with some (inserted?) peg-tile and oyster galleting. The earliest phase of the wall provided a parapet to an underlying arch og the bridge over the Thuate. The bridge was probably constructed, on the basis of documentary evidence, to between 1267 - 1310. The bridge seems to have gone out of use some time after the 1640's possibly during the 18th century. The barrel-vault of the bridge was formed of a course of roughly squared blocks laid tangentially surmounted by another laid raidially. Four phases of repair were identified dating to the mid 16th, mid 18th/early 19th, late 19th and mid to late 20th centuries.

Monument Types

• BRIDGE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1276 AD? to 1799 AD? (at some time))
• WALL (Medieval - 1276 AD? to 1276 AD? (post))

Full description

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A stretch of ragstone ashlar with some (inserted?) peg-tile and oyster galleting. The earliest phase of the wall provided a parapet to an underlying arch og the bridge over the Thuate. The bridge was porbably constructed, on the basis of documentary evidence, to between 1267 - 1310. The bridge seems to have gone out of use some time after the 1640's possibly during the 18th century. The barrel-vault of the bridge was formed of a course of roughly squared blocks laid tangentially surmounted by another laid raidially. Four phases of repair were identified dating to the mid 16th, mid 18th/early 19th, late 19th and mid to late 20th centuries.(1)

<1> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2000, Wall Fabric Recording Brief in the Grounds of St. Peter's Methodist Primary School, Canterbury (Unpublished document). SKE11974.

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