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The Magazine Gateway (aka The Magazine and also called Newarke Gateway) is a Grade I listed building in Leicester. Now a solitary landmark alongside Leicester ringroad, it was originally the main gateway of a walled enclosure built around 1400, giving access to the religious precinct of The Newarke. The vaulted archway was open to traffic until ...
The Newarke Houses Museum is a public museum in Leicester, ... The museum is close to the 15th century Magazine Gateway and within the precincts of the medieval ...
Leicester Castle lay on the south-western corner of the walls, and the Newarke was a separate walled area nearby. [citation needed] The Newarke Gateway (now known as the Magazine) is the only medieval gateway remaining. [citation needed] A small section of the town wall can be seen in the churchyard of St Mary de Castro.
1km 0.6miles War Memorial 14 Magazine Gateway 13 St Nicholas' 12 Jewry Wall 11 St Margaret's 10 City Rooms 9 Guildhall 8 All Saints 7 St Mary de Castro 6 Turret Gateway 5 Castle 4 Cavendish House 3 Abbot Penny's Wall 2 Abbey Ruins 1 Grade I listed buildings in Leicester Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX ...
Magazine Gateway Regimental Museum, Leicester, closed in 1996 (collection moved to Newarke Houses Museum). Museum of Costume, Leicester, closed in 2000; City Gallery, Leicester, closed in 2010. Snibston Discovery Museum, Coalville, closed in July 2015. Donington Grand Prix Exhibition, Castle Donington, closed in 2018.
English: More accurately called The Newarke Gateway, this was the grand entrance to the Newarke ("new work"), the religious and charitable institution founded by Henry, 3rd Earl of Leicester and Lancaster to the south of Leicester Castle and enlarged by his son, Henry of Grosmont, First Duke of Lancaster. (Part of De Montfort University, which ...
The Newarke Gateway or Magazine Gateway. At the end of the War of the Roses, King Richard III was buried in Leicester's Greyfriars Church a Franciscan Friary and Church which was demolished after its dissolution in 1538. The site of that church is now covered by King Richard III Visitor Centre (until 2012 by more modern buildings and a car park).
A section of the castle wall, adjacent to the Turret Gateway, has gun loops (holes) that were poked through the medieval wall to use as firing ports by the city's residents when Parliamentarian Leicester was besieged, captured, and ransacked, during the English Civil War by the main Royalist Field army under Charles I and Prince Rupert on 31 ...