Monument record TR 34 SW 2516 - Treasurer's Tower, outer curtain Dover Castle, Dover Castle
Summary
Location
Grid reference | Centred TR 3238 4198 (5m by 6m) (3 map features) |
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Map sheet | TR34SW |
County | KENT |
District | DOVER, KENT |
Civil Parish | DOVER, DOVER, KENT |
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Full Description
Treasurer’s tower is one of a series of towers located along the south western outer curtain wall of Dover Castle. A tower was originally constructed here in the C12th/early C13th but was entirely reconstructed in the C15th during the reign of Edward IV (1461-1483). The tower is different from all of the others located along the south curtain in that it is polygonal (semi octagonal). Today it is incorporated within the garden of the Constables tower and residence which is a later addition.
The tower has three faces and a spurred base on the outside and loops in each face on ground and first floors, but a square back. There is a complete parapet with crenellations (possibly a restoration), and a wall-walk that links back to the back door in the Constable’s Tower. The roofless tower is in the Deputy Constable’s garden as is used as a garden shed. The upper floor is no more, though a door leads from the parapet and the beam sockets are present in the walls. A concrete pill box for the gun emplacement is apparent within the curtain wall. (summarised from sources) (1-2)
<1> English Heritage, 2014, Dover Castle Conservation Management Plan Volume 2 Gazetteer (Unpublished document). SKE52105.
<2> Johnathan Coad, 1995, English Heritage Book of Dover Castle and the Defences of Dover (Monograph). SKE52106.
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Record last edited
Jul 2 2019 1:29PM