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Designations

Grid Reference:	SP 457 404
Parish:	BANBURY, CHERWELL, OXFORDSHIRE

Monument Type(s):

• TOWN GATE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1101 AD to 1712 AD?)

Summary

Although the town of Banbury was never walled, the Bishop of Lincoln in the C12 built five gates denoting the area of his manor. According to Stukeley only three remained in 1712, and all of these has been rebuilt.

Associated Monuments

• None

Associated Finds:

• None

Description

1) Cole Bar stood in Colebar Street, which probably continued the direct line of Newland entering Bridge Street near the site of the Baptist Chapel facing the entrance to the castle. Cole Bar stood where the boundary crossed Newland opposite the former police station.
2) Cole Bar (previously wrongly sited by the OS as SP4576 4023) stood in what is now Broad Street. (SP4560 4039).
3) Probably removed by 1712.




<1> General reference, W Potts: History of Banbury (1958) p.26 (Bibliographic reference). SOX373.

<2> General reference, Historic Towns (1969) (Bibliographic reference). SOX373.

<3> Victoria County History of Oxford, Vol 10 (1972) p.21 (Serial). SOX252.

Sources

<1>	General reference. W Potts: History of Banbury (1958) p.26. [Bibliographic reference / SOX373]
<2>	General reference. Historic Towns (1969). [Bibliographic reference / SOX373]
<3>	Victoria County History of Oxford. Vol 10 (1972) p.21. [Serial / SOX252]

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