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REMAINS OF CITY WALL AT REAR OF NO 11 AND NO 12 AND NOS 16 TO 23

REMAINS OF CITY WALL AT REAR OF NO 11 AND NO 12 AND NOS 16 TO 23, ST SWITHUN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1167253
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1950
List Entry Name:: REMAINS OF CITY WALL AT REAR OF NO 11 AND NO 12 AND NOS 16 TO 23
Statutory Address:: REMAINS OF CITY WALL AT REAR OF NO 11 AND NO 12 AND NOS 16 TO 23, ST SWITHUN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1167253
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Jan-2007
List Entry Name:: REMAINS OF CITY WALL AT REAR OF NO 11 AND NO 12 AND NOS 16 TO 23
Statutory Address 1:: REMAINS OF CITY WALL AT REAR OF NO 11 AND NO 12 AND NOS 16 TO 23, ST SWITHUN STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Statutory Address:: REMAINS OF CITY WALL AT REAR OF NO 11 AND NO 12 AND NOS 16 TO 23, ST SWITHUN STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hampshire
District:: Winchester (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU 48014 29147, SU 48055 29129

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869/5/288 ST SWITHUN STREET 869/6/288 CITY WALL 24-MAR-1950 REMAINS OF CITY WALL AT REAR OF NO 11 AND NO 12 AND NOS 16 TO 23 (Formerly listed as: ST SWITHUN STREET CITY WALL REMAINS OF CITY WALL AT REAR OF NO 12 AND NOS 16 TO 22) (Formerly listed as: ST SWITHUN STREET CITY WALL REMAINS OF CITY WALL AT REAR OF NO 12 AND NOS 16 TO 23)

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869/5/288 ST SWITHUN STREET 869/6/288 CITY WALL 24-MAR-50 Remains of City Wall at rear of Nos 11 and 12 and Nos 16 to 22 (Formerly listed as: ST SWITHUN STREET CITY WALL Remains of City Wall at rear of No 12 and Nos 16 to 23)

II Remains of the Winchester city wall. The wall originally dates from the late 3rd century AD, but has been repaired and rebuilt throughout its history into the Saxon and medieval periods.

MATERIALS: The wall is composed of flint and limestone rubble. The original bonding is of lime mortar, but later pointing and repair has occurred in places, with the inclusion of some brick. It is orientated north west-south east.

DESCRIPTION: The wall which can be seen today is essentially the wall core without its original facing stones. For the majority of its length the wall acts as a property boundary or garden wall. At No. 12, however, the wall forms the south wall of the house itself, and a fragment of wall extends into the garden of No. 23 St Swithuns Street.

HISTORY: The wall has its origins in the late 1st century Roman earthwork which first marked out this defensive line. The first masonry wall replaced the earthwork in the late 3rd century. The wall continued through the Saxon and into the medieval period with necessary repairs being inserted. From C12 there were a major series of repairs and rebuilds, until the wall was partially dismantled in C18 when it lost its purpose as a defensive structure. It subsequently became incorporated into the houses and boundaries of the expanding city.

SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: This section of the city wall is significant in terms of the survival of evidence of the development defended towns in Britain, and in terms of its construction methods and materials. It preserves the line of the earliest defences of the city, and the rarity of survival of this type of structure is remarkable. Of importance also is the effect it had on the development of this part of Winchester, including its incorporation into a listed building in St. Swithun Street. Surviving town walls, in the context of walls considered for listing, are among the most important examples to be found.

SOURCES: F Barlow, M Biddle, O von Feilitzen, DJ Keene, Winchester in the Early Middle Ages (Winchester Studies 1, ed. M Biddle, Oxford, 1976), 272-7. D Keene, Survey of Winchester I (Winchester Studies 2, ed. M Biddle, Oxford, 1985), 42-8.

Listing NGR: SU4803029146

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.