Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066NW NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/1/301 The Northgate 28/07/55 (Formerly Listed as: The Northgate)

GV I

Archway carrying the City Walls footpath over Northgate Street. Built in place of the former medieval Gatehouse in 1810 by Thomas Harrison for the City Council. Pale red sandstone ashlar. A segmental arch with coffered soffit spans the carriageway; a rectangular portal for the pavement to either side has an attached unfluted Greek Doric column at each corner. A dentilled cornice carries a panelled parapet to each side of the Walls footpath. The broad central panel of the north parapet is inscribed: INCHOATA GUIELMO NEWELL ARM. MAI. A.D. MDCCCVIII: PERFECTA THOMA GROSVENOR ARM. MAI. A.D. MDCCCX: THOMA HARRISON ARCHITECTO The north parapet is inscribed: PROTAM SEPTENTRIONALEM SUBSTRUCTAM A ROMANE VETUSTATE JAM DILAPSURAM: COMES GROSVENOR A.R. GEORGII TERTII LI. The adjacent City Wall parapets, a little lower, are swept upwards to the abutments of the Northgate. (Bartholomew City Guides: Harris B: Chester: Edinburgh: 1979-: 82-3).



Listing NGR: SJ4041166674

External Links

• Northgate at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7059427

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)