| HER Number (PRN): | 62387 |
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| Name: | Retaining Boundary Wall between 17 & 18 Wyle Cop |
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| Type of Record: | Monument |
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| Protected Status: | Conservation Area: Shrewsbury |
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| Listed Building (II) 1254595: KENNETH HOUSE AND KENNETH LODGE, KENNETH COURT (East side) |
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| Listed Building (II) 1254945: 17 Wyle Cop (Address) |
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| Listed Building (II) 1255103: 18 Wyle Cop (Address) |
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Monument Type(s):
- BOUNDARY (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1901 AD)
- REVETMENT (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1901 AD)
- WALL (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1901 AD)
Summary
A boundary of medieval to post medieval date, a revetment of medieval to post medieval date, a wall of medieval to post medieval date. The site is protected by Grade II Listing.
| Parish: | Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury and Atcham, Shropshire |
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| Map Sheet: | SJ41SE |
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| Grid Reference: | SJ 4938 1237 |
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Related records
| 01526 | Part of: Gibbons Mansion, Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury (Monument) |
| 62447 | Related to: Miss Humphreys Tower, Shrewsbury Town Walls (Monument) |
| 10646 | Related to: No 19, Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury (Building) |
| 60212 | Related to: Property boundary east of Gibbons Mansion plot, Wyle Cop (Monument) |
| 04629 | Related to: Wall at Rear of Nags Head, Wyle Cop, on line of Shrewsbury Town Wall (Monument) |
| 60145 | Related to: Wall remains, 16-17 Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury (Monument) |
| 62453 | Related to: Wyle Cop north tenements (Monument) |
Associated Finds: None recorded
Associated Events: None recorded
Description
Terrace or retaining wall, forming a northward continuation of the party boundary between nos.17 and 18 Wyle Cop, and forming the boundary between the latter's back yard and the gardens of Kenneth House (PRN 62445) and the adjacent properties in Dogpole Court. The terrace was examined during a UAD field visit; it stands approx. 6.3m-6.7m high, its upper courses built in pre-Victorian brickwork, its lower courses (visible from the yard of 18 Wyle Cop) mainly of orange-brown sandstone finely jointed ashlar, courses 200-300mm high, blocks up to 900mm long. The top of the masonry is c.2.7m above yard level at the rear of no.19 Wyle Cop (i.e. at c.62.11m) [<1>]. The first evidence of antiquarian interest in this terrace is in J B Blakeway's MS notes [<2>]; in which he proposed that part of the town wall circuit crossed Wyle Cop 'about the middle of its descent, and in the back part of the premises opposite, now occupied by Sir John Betton, were the foundations of a strong tower now destroyed'; the editor's (Wm Phillips's) note appended to this passage in 1905 locates 'Betton's Mansion' at the rear of 18 and 19 Wyle Cop, and adds that 'some red sandstone masonry indicates the line of the wall' [<2>]. R E Davies explored this area in c.1904, noting this wall, and its continuation of the line of the town wall east of Dogpole; from this he concluded that it must have had a defensive role (as per Blakeway) and was not merely a retaining wall or terrace [<3>] <4>
Sources
| [01] | SSA10337 - Field recording form: Baker Nigel J. 1996. UAD Field Visit File I. Shrewsbury UAD field survey sheets. |
| [01a] | SSA22030 - Field recording form: Baker Nigel J. 1996. SUAD Field Visit Records File. Shrewsbury Urban Archaeological Database. |
| [02] | SSA10571 - Article in serial: Blakeway J B. 1905. The Topographical History of Shrewsbury. Trans Shropshire Archaeol Hist Soc. Ser 3, Vol V (=Vol 28). Pt 2, p253-278. p255-256 & note 1. |
| [03] | SSA10364 - VERBAL COMMUNICATION: Davies R E. 1904. Letter to W Phillips, 17/11/1904, p28 and map. p28 and map. |
| [04] | SSA20432 - HER comment: Baker Nigel J. UAD Analysis. 26/02/1997. |
| Date Last Edited: | Dec 20 2021 8:17AM |
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