Magazine Gateway

52°37′54.13″N 1°8′16.52″W / 52.6317028°N 1.1379222°W / 52.6317028; -1.1379222

The Magazine seen from the west
Leicester's Magazine Gateway, showing its relationship with the (now lost) medieval town walls.

The Magazine Gateway (aka The Magazine and also called Newarke Gateway) is a Grade I listed building in Leicester. Now a solitary landmark alongside Leicester ringroad, it was originally the main gateway of a walled enclosure built around 1400, giving access to the religious precinct of The Newarke. The vaulted archway was open to traffic until 1905. The gatehouse rooms were variously used as a porter's lodge, guest accommodation, prison, militia building, and regimental museum. It is now a building managed by the Leicester Museum Service, and is generally only open to the public by arrangement.