Section III of VI
The Gates
Three arches standing in fields.
Three arches survive, and the wall they were built to anchor does not. These quarters deal with the defences as evidence — of the size the town expected to be, of the attacks that came, and of the point at which the money stopped.
The quarters in this section
3 quarters
Every piece in this section-
XV
Three Gates and No Wall
The Strand, Pipewell and New Gates stand in open ground, the New Gate nearly a mile from anything. What that says about the planned town.
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XVI
The Raids
Winchelsea was attacked repeatedly across the fourteenth century. What the documented raids did to the population and the trade, described soberly and without embellishment.
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XVII
Defences That Were Never Finished
The wall circuit was planned and largely not built. What survives, what was intended, and why the money stopped.
