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9. Leicester (3) The Newarke
Houses Museum and the Turret Gateway

Looking down the medieval
street through the arched Turret Gateway to The Newarke Houses (chimneys
visible on the centre skyline).

The back corner of the Newarke Houses
which now house a museum, and a popular tourist attraction in Leicester.

The Newarke Houses are an
early renaissance building of the Elizabethan-Jacobean period.

The Newarke Houses Museum
entrance.

The Turret Gateway of 1423.

Looking back up the street
through the Turret Gateway of 1423 from the Newarke Houses up towards the Church of St Mary de Castro.
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