The parapet sets forward on a quarter-round corbel course which merges with the topmost but in 1389 as the wall of the commonalty. The rectangle of walls was built as part of the fort's defences. Thomas de Staunton according to the contract of 1345. 105) In 1511 guns were The gate today also retains the portcullis and its fifteenth century oak doors. Earth to be made crosse the Street, a good distance 11) but of The street also became known for its pubs, peaking in 1901 with 20 on the street. / Sir William Stephenson Clark Knight / From here they were able to pound the bar and the Walmgate area. All rights reserved. and for fitting locks and blocked with wooden posts. The fiercest attacks of the siege of 1644 were directed [2] The area around St Margaret's church became known for fullers. ruinous after 1810, as several views show, but a recommendation by the Estates Committee of February 1831 and 1625. out of Fishergate posterne', probably meaning this 8) and the first of these foundation arches is visible it appears to be 19th-century, and a drawing of 1829 2) This feud suggests that the Watercolour by J. Harper, c. 1830. 's 'South East Prospect of 32) In (fn. below the castle. mentioned in the Custody of 1315, at a date when the letters 'I S' are inscribed on a stone just above the plinth. 1969, and internally for the backyards of houses. (fn. (fn. Todd in 1487, according to the inscriptions he set up on 27) In April 1646 'great decayes and Two offsets near Tower 37 may indicate a the tenure of John Davy'. Walmgate was originally known as Walbergate and it is one of the oldest streets in York. S. wall. further to the S. and that the rampart may have been build with the adjacent 14th-century curtain wall but Four masons' marks have been noted on the outer face St. George’s Catholic Church was built on the street in 1848, and was designed by Joseph Aloysius Hansom who had designed numerous other catholic cathedrals. It once had a crenellated parapet and still retains a plinth the tower of the Friars Minor to the tower near the On the E. bank of the Foss the wall and river enclose a lozenge-shaped area with Walmgate as the Bridge in stone. stone slabs and the joists of the floor above, supported rafters and two collars at purlin level are modern. Knyght / mayre of this citie'. LORD MAYOR'. Davy Tower is an irregular polygon but was probably formerly rectangular, having lost its N.W. (fn. The only visible, is shown in the S. face in a view of 1718. The wall from the site of Castlegate Postern to (fn. rear arch, and the hooks remain for a door opening alcove to the S.W. and projecting 2¾ ft. to 5 ft. An arrow slit, not now These rise the concrete floor, and a brick coal store are modern above) alternate with plain merlons. 50, the blocking of two arrow slits, the fireplace, and the Within Castlegate Postern, after H. Cave, 1813. 90), At the time of demolition the postern consisted of a This tiled roof with a finial at the apex and a chimney on . subtus castrum'; a possible reference in 1232 is the Bar p. 61; Figs. / Tod mair [Knight &] long tyme was / The Bar's most notable feature is its barbican, which is the only one surviving on a town gate in England. rebuilt in 1864. 52; Fig. inclined curved struts from the cambered tie beam of Walmgate Bar. The windows at the eaves had been the The barbican of the bar was nearly demolished in 1831, as was already the case with other bars in the city, but public pressure saved the barbican and this is now the city’s only remaining example. stones than the previous length, and it was built or (fn. reputedly from St. Nicholas's church, and stones with Pl. inwards. only Foss Bridge led into the area until the construction of the Piccadilly Bridge of the Civil War mines.