Submitted by AAG Archaeology
Newcastle Town Wall
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear, United Kingdom
Category: Monuments
Fire escapes of St Andrews Buildings West (1898-1899) hang down the curtain wall and a turret of the thirteenth century town wall of Newcastle. The building was allowed to overlie the town wall by all but six inches of its width, leaving seven feet of the walls width under the Victorian building. Witches executed in the seventeenth century were buried on the north side of St Andrews churchyard, at the foot of this part of the town wall. St Andrews Building West is on Gallowgate, a medieval route out of the walled town that led to the gallows.
