Kaleyard Gate
Kaleyard Gate is a postern gate in Chester city walls, Cheshire, England (grid reference SJ406665). It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.[1]
Chester city walls showing Kaleyard Gate
In the 13th century the monks of St Werburgh's Abbey had developed a vegetable garden (known as the kaleyard) outside the city walls. They wanted an easier route to access the kaleyard than the longer walk through Eastgate so they petitioned Edward I in 1275 to allow them to cut a gate through the wall to provide direct access to the garden. This he allowed under certain conditions, one of which was that it must be locked at nightfall.[2]
The gate consists of a simple opening in the sandstone wall containing a door.
Door in Kaleyard Gate showing the notice about closing the gate
References
- Historic England, "Kaleyard Gate, Chester (1376161)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 15 July 2012
- Ward, Simon (2009), Chester: A History, Chichester: Phillimore, p. 40, ISBN 978-1-86077-499-7
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