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| Name: | City Wall, St Peter's - Sidbury Gate (buried remains) |
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| HER Reference: | WCM96132 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Grid Reference: | SO 852 543 |
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| Map Sheet: | SO85SE |
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| Parish: | Worcester (Non Civil Parish), Worcester City, Worcestershire |
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| Worcester, Worcestershire |
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Monument Types
- TOWN WALL (MEDIEVAL - 1066 AD to 1539 AD (between))
- TOWN WALL (POST MEDIEVAL - 1540 AD to 1900 AD (between))
Associated Events
- City Wall, St Peters Old Vicarage (Ref: WCM100465)
- Royal Worcester Porcelain Area C (St Peter's Street), watching brief, GI (Ref: WCM102044)
Full description
City wall (buried remains and alignment of), constituent of the medieval defences WCM 96100.
The general line of the city wall from Sidbury Gate (WCM 96101) to the corner and tower (WCM 96131) by St Peter the Great (church WCM 96037) is established from the cartographic sequence; the wall then continues to the W as WCM 96130.
Speed’s map of 1610 shows the city wall with the ditch (WCM 96133) outside, heading south from Sidbury Gate (WCM 96101), to a corner tower behind St Peter’s church (WCM 96131), and from there north-west to the Frog Gate (WCM 96129). The same features are shown on the 1651 map editions. This stretch of wall does not appear at all on Doharty’s plan of 1741, but does appear on Broad’s map of 1768, as a conventionally rendered section of the city wall running parallel to Church Street. It does not appear on Young’s map of 1779 which repeats Doharty’s detailing, showing the Frog brook as the eastern boundary of St Peter's churchyard (WCM 96038) and of the Church Street plots to the north. The city wall is identified on the first edition O.S. 1:500 plan of 1886 as a continuous property boundary forming the east boundary to the churchyard and extending north to Sidbury as a common back boundary to the Church Street plots against canal property to the east.
In 1956 the brick wall between St Peter’s church and the vicarage was rebuilt and, according to Richardson {1} ‘traces of the city wall were disclosed’ (WCM 100465). The wall in question was not located in Richardson’s article but the vicarage stood to the north of the church against the churchyard’s east (city wall) boundary.
RWP eval 2005
later work on Royal Worcester Porcelain site C
Sources and further reading
| <1> | Article in serial: Richardson, L. 1957. The Ancient Walls and ditches of Worcester. Trans Worcestershire Naturalists Club. Vol 11, Part 2. 109. |
Related records
| WCM96100 | Part of: The medieval city defences (Monument) |
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