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Supposedly begun in 1355, the city walls were under construction for over a century, involving considerable disruption and consequent opposition to paying for their raising and upkeep; they were built with stone taken from their site and from Cheylesmore Park and Allesley. By the early-seventeenth century the walls were in decay, but they were refortified during the Civil War , only to be "slighted" on Charles II's orders in 1662 because Coventry harboured rebels. Much of the wall was removed over the next two centuries but lengths remain.
Talk about lecture on excavation, c.1936. PA313/162/2.
City Engineer's letter, 1948. PA313/227/2.
Extract from council committee proceedings about the city wall near Upper Well Street, 1949. PA313/338/1.
Letter about wall near Upper Well Street, 1944. PA313/338/2.
Preservation of section on southern side of Gosford Street, 1933. PA353/9/1-11.
Historical notes, c.1873. PA226/2.
Site near Much Park Street, 1768. PA67/1.
Tower near Poddycroft, 1550. PA73/1.
F.W. Humberston'e reference, 1914. PA159/1/15.
Advance copy of C. Nowell's "Some Account of the Gates, Towers and Wall of the City of Coventry", 1924. PA159/17.
Wall formed a boundary for John Bedford's Smithford Street house, 1609. PA185/1.
Troughton Drawings, mid nineteenth century. PA1/7 fol. 14 (fol. "8"), fols. 21,22 (fols. "14", "15").
Access to Cheylesmore Park at Greyfriars', 1664. PA14/1/25.
Notes, 1840. PA17/101.
Bond for corporation Much Park Street tenements, 1605 - 1708. PA244/16/1,2.
The Chauntry Croft was nearby, 1712-29. PA101/1/262: PA288/1.
Trinity Guild tenement adjacent, Much Park Street, 1393. BA/B/P/14/5(ah).
Trinity Guild tenement adjacent, Dead Lane, 1393. BA/B/P/14/5(dr).
Trinity Guild croft, Little Park Street, 1393. BA/B/P/14/5(es).
Bound at Swanswell, 1770. BA/B/P/78/1.
Bound at Cook Street, 1641. BA/B/P/86/1.
Bound at Cook Street, 1766. BA/B/P/88/1.
Bound near Dead Lane, 1384. BA/B/P/108/1.
Bound near Little Park Street, 1342. BA/B/P/266/23.
Bound at Little Park Street, 1398. BA/B/P/277/1.
Bound at [Abbot's Lane], 1392. BA/B/P/337/4.
Bound near Earl's Mill Lane, c.1554. BA/B/P/390/1(b).
Bound near New Gate, 1802. BA/B/P/450/3(b).
Corporation had land near Prior's Orchard, 1683. BA/D/A/19/9(o).
Bound for Prior's Orchard, 1594. BA/D/A/23/7.
Bound near Priory Mill, 1634. BA/D/H/19/1(b).
Rope walk from Whitefriars' Mill district, pre 1794. BA/D/L/27/4(b).
Bound at Cheylesmore, 1592. BA/G/A/18/1.
Bound at Cheylesmore, 1800. BA/G/A/41/2.II.
The Pudding Crofts lay athwart it, 1552. BA/H/H/314/14.
Bound at Smithford Street, 1569. BA/H/H/314/16(a).
Repair-agreement, 1636. BA/H/N/5/1.
Demolition damaged Cheylesmore manor house, 1662. BA/H/Q/A79/44.
Parliamentary order for slighting Coventry's defences, 1647. BA/H/Q/A79/203.
Materials disposed of, 1662. BA/H/Q/A79/250.
Tower near Pudding Croft, 1550-69. BA/A/B/40/2,3.
Lady Tower, 1670. BA/A/B/7/1.
Slang at Swanswell, 1770-73. BA/B/P/78/1-3.
Surveys, 1618-41. BA/A/C/4/1,2.
Bound at Bishop Street, 1518 - 1603. PA1516/3/1-6.
Bound at Bishop Street, 1585. PA1516/4/1.
Chantry Close lay within the walls near Cook Street, 1720-35. PA466/9/1-17.
Pool Yard and Town Wall Pleck to the north, 1602-06. PA494/1.
Whitefriars' Mill estate bounded, 1769. PA54/153/9(b).
Bastille Mill estate bounded, 1609. PA54/163/1.
Gosford Street garden which extended to, 1646. PA500/23/1(b).
Bound at Much Park Street, 1713. PA539/1/1.
Bound at Gosford Street, 1738. PA539/2/1.
Bound at Much Park Street, 1762, PA553/2.
Corporation considered the walls' condition, 1929. PA575/10/11.