Having survived for many centuries and the Civil War siege, the Newarke
walls were demolished in the early nineteenth century, leaving only the two
upstanding structures.
The first of these was a building known as Prince Rupert’s Tower.
This enigmatic building was demolished in 1935. It stood on the north side of Bonners Lane and
probably formed part of the southern gatehouse to the Newarke.
The second was
the Magazine Gateway. By the end of the nineteenth century it had been
incorporated into a barracks and has survived more or less intact. When, in the
1960s, there was a proposal to demolish the Gateway to make way for the inner
ring road there was a public outcry and the Gateway, by then a scheduled monument, was
spared. This is how the Gateway now stands isolated as the only obvious
reminder of the great collegiate church to the west and the precinct that
enclosed it.
