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The Grade I Listed remains of Jewry Wall a nearly 2000 year old ruins of a public building of Ratae Corieltauvorum (Roman Leicester). In Leicester, Leicestershire.
It is the second largest piece of surviving civil Roman building in Britain (the largest being the "Old Work" at Wroxeter). The wall lies to the west of St Nicholas' Church, which includes in its late Saxon and early medieval which fabric much re-used Roman brick and masonry. Lying immediately west of the wall are the remains of the town's Roman public baths, which was excavated in four seasons from 1936 to 1939 by Dame Kathleen Kenyon and date from approximately 160 AD. The site is in the guardianship of English Heritage.
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The Grade I Listed remains of Jewry Wall a nearly 2000 year old ruins of a public building of Ratae Corieltauvorum (Roman Leicester). In Leicester, Leicestershire.
It is the second largest piece of surviving civil Roman building in Britain (the largest being the "Old Work" at Wroxeter). The wall lies to the west of St Nicholas' Church, which includes in its late Saxon and early medieval which fabric much re-used Roman brick and masonry. Lying immediately west of the wall are the remains of the town's Roman public baths, which was excavated in four seasons from 1936 to 1939 by Dame Kathleen Kenyon and date from approximately 160 AD. The site is in the guardianship of English Heritage.