Barker Tower - York, Great Britain.
N 53° 57.587 W 001° 05.258
30U E 625468 N 5980740
Barker Tower - North Street Postern and Town Walls are a Grade 1 British listed buildings. Located in York, Great Britain.
Waymark Code: WMK8WJ
Location: North East England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/02/2014
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The town walls of York are approx. 2 miles in length, and there are several of these City Wall series 'You Are Here' signs dotted around the perimeter wall.
"Barker Tower: 2 storeys on battered base: conical roof broken
by barge- boarded gable with 1-light attic window in quoined
opening. Ground floor door beneath outside stairs to first
floor has one chamfered jamb with run-out stop. Other openings
are vestigial cruciform arrow slits with oillets and two
inserted 1-pane windows. First floor doorway has plain lintel.
Embrasures of original embattled parapet converted to 1-pane
windows by altered roof: two 2x6-pane Yorkshire sashes
inserted in C18.
INTERIOR: original ground floor openings are splayed with
shouldered rere-arches recessed beneath 2-centred arches: 3
survive, 2 altered." Text Source: (
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