ENTRANCE GATES TO FORMER WORSLEY NEW HALL AND ADJOINING QUADRANT WALLS

ENTRANCE GATES TO FORMER WORSLEY NEW HALL AND ADJOINING QUADRANT WALLS, LEIGH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1162967
Date first listed:: 02-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: ENTRANCE GATES TO FORMER WORSLEY NEW HALL AND ADJOINING QUADRANT WALLS
Statutory Address:: ENTRANCE GATES TO FORMER WORSLEY NEW HALL AND ADJOINING QUADRANT WALLS, LEIGH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1162967
Date first listed:: 02-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: ENTRANCE GATES TO FORMER WORSLEY NEW HALL AND ADJOINING QUADRANT WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: ENTRANCE GATES TO FORMER WORSLEY NEW HALL AND ADJOINING QUADRANT WALLS, LEIGH ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ENTRANCE GATES TO FORMER WORSLEY NEW HALL AND ADJOINING QUADRANT WALLS, LEIGH ROAD

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District:: Salford (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 74322 00752

Details

WORSLEY LEIGH ROAD SD 70 SW (south side) 1/38 Entrance gates to former Worsley New Hall and adjoining - quadrant walls G.V. II

Entrance gates. c.1850. Probably by Blore for the 1st Earl of Ellesmere. Made by Cottam and Hallen of London. Cast and wrought iron with ashlar walls to either side. Double carriage gates flanked by smaller pedestrian gates. The gates are supported by intermediate square piers constructed of iron bars. The gates are of similar construction. All have elaborate scrollwork at top and bottom. The carriage gates rise to a Baroque-type scrolled head and are surmounted by the outline of a cartouche. Bold ashlar piers to either side have recessed panels and moulded caps. Pierced quadrant walls. The gates won an award when exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851. Illustrated in The Builder, Dec. 10, 1853.

Listing NGR: SD7432200752

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'The Builder' in 29 October, (1853)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.