The jewry wall museum is currently closed for refurbishment.
Jewry wall museum floor plan.
Investment of more than 1m is due to be approved in order to revamp the site of leicester s finest roman remains at jewry wall museum.
No 156 160 jewry wall museum formerly listed as vaughan college university of leicester including jewry wall museum st nicholas street previously listed under talbot lane ii former college of education with museum to ground floor.
The jewry wall museum which currently occupies the lower ground floor will extend into the upper ground floor previously occupied by the university of leicester.
Jewry wall museum to close its doors for refurbishment.
The site which is home to one of the tallest surviving civilian roman structures in the uk along with the remains of a roman bathhouse is set to benefit from an overhaul which will both improve public access and redesign the exhibition housed in the museum.
Statutory protection jewry wall is one of the largest upstanding civilian.
One of the tallest surviving sections of roman masonry in britain this wall of a town centre bath house complex stands over 9 metres high and dates from about ad 160.
Jewry wall museum needs 2 7m of work before expensive roman attraction plan can begin mayor is committed to ambitious plan but council is keeping options open over future of 1960s building.
Brown brick with board marked reinforced concrete.
All that is on display now is the jewry wall and the remains of the quite extensive bath complex.
The jewry wall museum is a museum in leicester it was built in the 1960s facing the jewry wall ruins in a building shared with vaughan college it housed artefacts from iron age roman and medieval leicester.
It is one of the tallest surviving pieces of roman masonry in.
Check back here for details of the renovated museum and a new exciting and interactive exhibition.
Two and three storeys.
Published on tuesday june 27 2017.
Managed by leicester city council visit their jewry wall museum website.
With the ending of vaughan college s use of the building in 2013 the whole site was acquired by the city council and expansion and improvement plans were put in place.
A museum telling the story of leicester s roman history is due to close its doors next month ahead of major refurbishment works.
Leicester s finest roman remains could become a top class visitor attraction under new plans to improve the historic site.
Leicester is not well known for its roman past but there was quite a large settlement there for many centuries.
Jewry wall museum is currently closed for refurbishment.
There is at present no access between the jewry wall museum and the vaughan college demise.
Leicester city council has already begun work to improve jewry wall museum including creating better public access and improving the condition of the site which features one of the tallest surviving pieces of non military roman masonry in the uk.