Archaeology Notes

Event ID 665948

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ26SW 1.07 22319 62974

(NJ 2231 6297) Pans Port (NR)

OS 25"map, (1871)

Of the Precinct wall itself, 12ft in height with three other gateways (additional to Pans Port - NJ 2231 6297) and over half a mile in circuit, nothing now remains but a short section adjoining Pans Port, and two other fragments to the south-west. The back wall of No.36 South College Street is also part of the Cathedral Precinct Wall. R Cant and I G Lindsay 1954.

Only two fragments of the wall are now extant. One is at NJ 2227 6284, preserved within a fenced enclosure. It is an angled fragment of wall 8.5m long, 2.0m thick and 2.7m maximum height. The other is a 27.0m length of wall at NJ2231 6295 south of Pans Port, with a maximum height of 2.4m.

Visited by OS (R D L) 13 December 1962.

The arch to the SE of the Cathedral is known as the Panns Port or Water Yett and represents the eastern gateway to the Cathedral and College precinct.

R Cant and I G Lindsay 1954.

Panns Port; Pann's Port; Pans Port; The Water Gate Bishop's Gate, Eastern Gate.

L Shaw 1882.

Panns Port

H B Mackintosh 1924.

The Pans Port is at NJ 2232 6297.

Visited by OS (R D L) 13 December 1962.