Curfew Tower

Date:
28 Sep 2001
Location:
Curfew Tower, High Street, Moreton In Marsh, Cotswold, Gloucestershire, GL56 0AX
Reference:
IOE01/02507/34
Type:
Photograph (Digital)
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Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

1.

5224 MORETON-IN-THE-MARSH HIGH STREET (east side)

Curfew Tower SP 2032 SW 2/5 25.8.60

II GV

2.

Probably C16. Ancient stone rubble tower of 2-storeys. Arched window above 4 canted arched doorway. Interesting C17 clock. Curfew bell in gabled turret.

Said to be the oldest building in Moreton-in-the-Marsh. Formerly used as lock-up, see Tudor-arch doorway with shielded door at south-west corner.

Listing NGR: SP2048632445

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0750 IOE Records taken by Lorna Freeman; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Lorna Freeman. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project

People & Organisations

Photographer: Freeman, Lorna

Rights Holder: Freeman, Lorna

Keywords

Rubble, Stone, Medieval Lock Up, Tudor Civil, Elizabethan Prison, Legal Site, Curfew Bell Tower, Religious Ritual And Funerary, Bell Tower