What is recorded here

Arundel and Catchcold Towers still stand inside Southampton, marked as a scheduled monument though the boundary between ownership and public life remains unclear. The wall section stretches seventy metres east from Arundel Tower, preserving a fragment of the town’s defensive edge. Whether people walked beside it, traded against it or fled behind it has faded, but the stones still break the modern street into something older.

The National Heritage List for England records Town wall: section from 75yds (70m) E of Arundel Tower to limit of castle site including Arundel and Catchcold Towers as a scheduled monument. The saved point comes from the centre supplied by the official record. Listing does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

The section of town wall including Arundel and Catchcold Towers was built by the de Warenne family, who held Arundel Castle from the 11th century, with significant construction occurring in the 13th and 14th centuries. It is important as a key defensive feature of Arundel Castle, reflecting the strategic and military significance of the site during the medieval period.

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