St Marys Gate Adjoining Number 14 College Green Gloucester, England

Listed Building Data

St Marys Gate Adjoining Number 14 College Green has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

List Entry ID
1245897
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
I
Date Listed
23 January 1952
Name
ST MARYS GATE ADJOINING NUMBER 14 COLLEGE GREEN
Location
ST MARYS GATE ADJOINING NUMBER 14 COLLEGE GREEN, COLLEGE GREEN
District
Gloucester
County
Gloucestershire
Grid Reference
SO 83008 18865
Easting
383008.0000
Northing
218865.0038

Description

Formerly known as: College Gate COLLEGE GREEN. Gatehouse, now includes offices. Late C12, refronted and heightened in early C13; for the Benedictine Abbey of St Peter as the Great Gate to the Outer Court of the monastery, now part of College Green; altered in C18 and restored in late C19 by FS Waller for the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral.

Listed Building Description

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GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW COLLEGE GREEN 844-1/8/80 (West side) 23/01/52 St Mary's Gate adjoining No.14 College Green

GV I

Formerly known as: College Gate COLLEGE GREEN. Gatehouse, now includes offices. Late C12, refronted and heightened in early C13; for the Benedictine Abbey of St Peter as the Great Gate to the Outer Court of the monastery, now part of College Green; altered in C18 and restored in late C19 by FS Waller for the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral. Ashlar, rubble, tiled roof, wrought-iron gates. PLAN: gate passage leads from St Mary's Square into north-west corner of College Green, passage covered by two bays of quadripatite vaulting; with a large chamber at first-floor level above the passage. EXTERIOR: two storeys with cross gabled fronts facing the street and the court; the outer front facing St Mary's Street has a large arch to the passage with recessed orders to the jambs, formerly with nook shafts, and at first-floor level an arcade of four bays with the two inner bays flanked by smaller bays; the inner bays framing windows with flat lintels; in the gable a recessed triangular panel within which are the jambs and arches of a three-bay blank arcade with the shafts removed. The inner front above the archway to the passage restored in late C19; similar to outer front. INTERIOR: not inspected. Scheduled Ancient Monument. (VCH: The City of Gloucester: Oxford: 1988-: 282; Welander D: The History, Art and Architecture of Gloucester Cathedral: Stroud, Gloucestershire: 1991-).

Listing NGR: SO8300818865