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boundary of the parish of St. Nicholas, which diverges 

 to the north here, and skirts the Priory grounds to the east. 

 There are some signs of the wall when we reach the 

 Priory-road formerly Dogge-lane, but the roadway leading 

 to Saltisford and the Cape has destroyed its connection 

 with the Northgate. The ordnance surveyors placed the 

 Northgate where the present entrance to the Priory stands, 

 but this is open to doubt. Speed shows a circular 

 enclosure at this spot, and at some distance behind there 

 are buttresses of uncertain date on the line of the 

 escarpments which I have before alluded to, and which 

 may have become necessary when the Priory was founded. 

 Joyce Pool, formerly Wall Ditch, is the outside of another 

 section of the walls; though there are many pieces of old 

 masonry remaining and what appears to be a double bastion, 

 angular in outline, corresponding to the one in Chapel-street, 

 and equidistant from the presumed site of the North Gate. 

 The building of the old Bridewell* effectually hides any trace 

 of the wall until we come to the Iron Bridge over Saltisford 

 Rock, which is a modern excavation, and here another 

 tower appears to have stood. Near the old theatre and in 

 the yard of the George and Dragon, we find unmistakeable 

 fragments of the walls. Opposite the entrance to the 

 Marble House in Theatre-street, are two solid pieces of 

 masonry, which appear to have supported a postern or 

 gateway, in advance of the wall, which crossed the site 

 of the present Corn Exchange and Messrs. Mallory's 

 warehouse, to near Albion-court, where there appears to 

 have been a rectangular tower, or bastion ; and from here 

 the wall went in a straight line beneath one of the corners 



* The Bridewell was built on the site of an Elizabethan dwelling known as 

 Joyce Pool House ; a portion ot its windows may be seen still towards the Saltisford. 



