Fishergate Postern Tower Fishergate Postern Tower Opening Dates in 2017 Fishergate Postern Tower is located where Pic- Sat 28th + Sun 29th Jan = York Residents Weekend cadilly reaches the City Walls. It was built Sat 18th & 25th Feb = York Viking Festival around 1505 at the end of the walls by the River Sat 11th & 25th March = York Literary Festival Foss, where water lapped its foundations, creat- Friends of York Walls Sat 8th &15th + Sun 16th April = Easter Hols, Weekend ing a natural defence for the city. Sat 22nd April = York Open Studios Map & Open Days Guide 2017 It has four floors linked by a spiral staircase Sat 29th April + Mon 1st May = May Day BH with several masons’ marks visible. The roof Sat 13th May = May Saturday The Friends of York Walls is a charity (CIO) set was added in the late 1500’s and this turned the up to educate the public in the history, natural his- battlements at the top of the tower into a row of Sat 27th + Mon 29th May = Late Spring BH tory and architecture of York’s City Walls and square windows on the top floor. Sat 10th & 17th June = York Ideas Festival Sat 8th & 22nd + Sun 23rd July = Great Yorkshire Fringe Defences and to secure the preservation, protec- The Friends of York Walls lease the tower from tion and improvement of these features of historic Sat 5th & 19th August = August Saturdays the City of York Council and plan to bring it public interest. back into community use, possibly as an exhibi- Late Summer BH = no planned openings tion centre and as a base for The Friends. Vari- Fri 8th Sept (11am to 4:30pm) = Heritage Open Day York’s City Walls Trail ous fund raising opportunities are being ex- Sat 9th + Sun 10th Sept = Heritage Open Weekend Follow the “Walls Trail” on the FoYW website plored and we also have a “sponsor a stone” Sat 23th Sep = Late September Saturday at http://yorkwalls.org.uk/?page_id=3690 scheme. For a £20 donation, you can “sponsor Sat 7th & 28th Oct + 4th Nov = October/Nov Saturdays a stone” in your name or for someone else; in Normal opening times - 10:00am to 4:00pm Or buy the book :- this scheme a particular stone on an external "A Walking Guide to wall of Fishergate Postern Tower is linked to NOTE – All dates to be confirmed on the website, and are subject to volunteer numbers. York's City Walls" your donation which will help FoYW to return ISBN the currently unused tower to community use. Join FoYW. Make a Donation 9780992900205 To become a Friend of York Walls, please use our website at : http://yorkwalls.org.uk or send an email to : [email protected] Joining is FREE, but any donations are welcome. Volunteer as a guide at Fishergate Postern Tower or as a walks/talks/tours guide. Help us fundraise. Sponsoring a Stone Stones can be sponsored on the website, or by email to: [email protected]

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York’s medieval City Walls (or “Bar Walls”), a scheduled ancient monument encircling the N historic City of York, comprise 3.4km (2 miles) of surviving masonry. They are the longest town St Mary’s Tower (in the Bootham Bar Sea Catcher Lord Mayor’s Walk Monk Bar (with walls in England. They were built mainly in the Abbey precinct walls) (with portcullis) and the last remain- museum and ing City Wall ditch portcullis) 13th century of magnesian limestone and, uniquely in England, were set on earthen ram- 200 metres parts. York’s City Walls offer a splendid elevated walk York’s Old around the city. The accompanying moats have York Defensive largely disappeared but the slopes of the ramparts Multangular Tower Minster Walls are well known for the display of daffodils in March and April of each year. Museum A walk round the walls takes about 2 hours and Gardens offers an opportunity to see the main features of the walls. There are four main bars, or fortified gateways, two smaller gateways with more mod- ern stonework and one postern (a very small gate- East of the station the City Walls were pierced for roads way defended by a tower), frequent intermediate and railways Red Tower (at the south towers, and details like windows, arrow-slits and during the 19th edge of the land once River Foss gun ports, sculptures, and masons’ marks. There century flooded to make the are also good views of many important buildings King’s Fishpool) from the walls. Railway Station Clifford’s One section of the medieval walls is in the Tower Museum Gardens, where you can see the best surviving stretch of the Roman fortress wall and Fishergate the Roman Multangular Tower with medieval Postern Tower stonework above it. Also in the Museum Gardens Walmgate Bar (the only are the ruins of St Mary’s Abbey and the precinct Micklegate Bar (with museum) bar which still has a River Ouse barbican extending from walls around two sides of the Abbey. These walls Victoria Bar were built at the same time as the City Walls and its gateway to defend it) KEY are the finest surviving example of Abbey walls in the country. FoYW are concerned with both This map of York’s City Walls Trail is The “City Walls Trail”. A route marked by brass studs copyright of The Friends of York Walls on the pavement when it is not on the Walls. sets of walls and with Clifford’s Tower and the Sponsored by - old castle bailey wall nearby. The City Walls. Other medieval defensive walls. Further information is available at www.yorkwalls.org.uk and at www.visityork.org/explore/walls Gardens and green space usually freely open to the 1b, Clarence St, York, YO31 7EL 01904 637208 Friends of York Walls CIO Number 1159300 E&OE public; please respect rules that are displayed. 16.12.2017 AF Selected roads.