Walmgate Bar
Medieval gatehouse with England's only surviving town-gate barbican, portcullis and Tudor timber house.
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This guide to Walmgate Bar in York begins in the summer of 1644, with the city under siege and this gate taking the heaviest blows, while something moves beneath it. It follows the governor Sir Thomas Glemham and the people who lived over the gate for centuries, from a medieval rent to a boy who grew up to draw York Minster. Best heard standing inside the barbican, then again from the inner side of the arch.
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