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Description: | The archway of the fourteenth-century West Gate, leading directly on to West Quay. It is a plain rectangular work, flush with the town wall in front, 23 feet broad and 30 feet deep. It is in three stages, the lowest pierced by a roadway 10 feet wide and covered by low pointed vaulting. The gate defences were worked from the second stage, above which is a third surmounted by a crenellation. The portcullis was removed in 1745. The whole is capped by a plain, tiled roof which was removed during restoration in 1934-5. The staircase immediately to the left leads to the rampart walk on the walls. The tower was called, and let as, the Pigeon House.
From the mid eighteenth century up to 1935 the Corporation had leased the upper floors as a private dwelling, for many years to the Marett family of Westgate House. They were presumably occupied by some of their servants.
Our postcard is from the "Holyrood Series" of R F Fielder of Southampton.
Reference:
Davies, J Silvester. 1883. A History of Southampton, p. 92-93. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | West Gate building Marett family Westgate West Gate Street town walls Pigeon House | Temporal: | start=1900-01-01; end=1920-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | R F Fielder | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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