Round Tower, Southampton black plaque

This black commemorative plaque records: ROUND TOWER The Round Tower, so called in 1454, started as a freestanding dovecote built in the late Thirteenth Century. In the mid Fourteenth Century when the adjacent town wall was built, the back of the round dovecote was demolished and the front heightened to form a half-round tower. The honeycomb construction of the original nesting boxes is still visible in the base of the tower. Subsequently the tower was used as a house in the late Eighteenth Century. Part of a brick domestic fireplace or oven survives. Recorded plaque organisation: City of Southampton.

The Round Tower in Southampton, originally constructed as a freestanding dovecote in the late 13th century, later integrated into the town's defensive wall in the mid-14th century, exemplifies medieval urban development and adaptive reuse of structures.