Archaeology Notes

Event ID 671677

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ90NW 9.01 93868 08720 and 93875 08714

For cathedral gateway (Chanonry Arch) at NJ 9387 0871, see NJ90NW 9.34.

('A' NJ 9372 0882) Site of Chanonry Port (NR)

('B' NJ 9390 0850) Site of Cluny's Port (NR)

('C' NJ 9405 0864) Site of Chaplain's Port (NR)

('D' NJ 9413 0876) Site of Port (NR)

OS 25" map, (1926).

The cathedral precincts were enclosed by a high stone wall with four 'ports' or gates. The Chaplain's Port, 'C' was erected c 1532 and stood until at least 1725, 'Cluny's Port', 'B', stood until the close of the 18th century ; the unnamed port, 'D', was erected c 1429 but no trace remains of any of them, or of the wall.

W Kennedy 1818; Name Book 1866.

Visited by OS (JLD) 12 September 1952.