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Exeter City Council

10325.07



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CASTLE, REPAIRS AND UPGRADING


Description:  '[Section Ext 3.6] (ii) Build entirely of coursed breccia. Contains three musket-ports (best seen from the inside of the wall where large breccia slabs act as capping to the embrasures), large breccia coping stones. The build abuts and partly underpins the easternmost pilaster buttress of the corner tower of the castle. This is presumably datable to the Civil War and thus represents a part of the expenditure of more than £400 on the castle in 1642-3: as documented in the siege accounts (Stoyle 1992, 31-46 [REN 4767])' (Blaylock, S.R., 1995, 'Exeter City Wall Survey', 40).

Extant: Yes

Country:  England

County:  Devon

District:  Exeter

Parish:  Exeter

Grid Reference:   SX921929

Map Reference:  [EPSG:27700] 292171, 92962

Period:  1640 - 1650, CIVIL WAR - UNDER PARLIAMENTARIANS

Subject:  CASTLE

Identifiers: 
[ADS] Depositor Id: 10325.07
[ADS] Import RCN: ECHER11-10325.07

People Involved: 
[Publisher] Exeter City Council