QUADRANGLE GATEWAY (THE ARCHES)

QUADRANGLE GATEWAY (THE ARCHES), KING'S WALK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1024828
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: QUADRANGLE GATEWAY (THE ARCHES)
Statutory Address:: QUADRANGLE GATEWAY (THE ARCHES), KING'S WALK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1024828
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: QUADRANGLE GATEWAY (THE ARCHES)
Statutory Address 1:: QUADRANGLE GATEWAY (THE ARCHES), KING'S WALK
Statutory Address 2:: QUADRANGLE GATEWAY, UNIVERSITY QUADRANGLE

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

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

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:: QUADRANGLE GATEWAY (THE ARCHES), KING'S WALK
Statutory Address:: QUADRANGLE GATEWAY, UNIVERSITY QUADRANGLE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Newcastle upon Tyne (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 24730 65042

Details

NZ 2465 SE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE KING'S WALK (north side) 14/354 Quadrangle gateway (The arches) G.V. II Gateway, part of Art Department. 1911 by W. H. Knowles for Armstrong College. Dark red Flemish bond brick with ashlar dressings; roof of plain tiles. Tudor style. Gabled front of 3 storeys, one bay. Paired moulded arches with blind tracery above containing statue of Edward VII in central niche. Gothic-lettered Latin legend in frieze below pierced parapet. Upper floors, recessed between wide full-height buttresses, contain 2-storey canted bay with large royal arms in panel between floors. Stone mullioned and transomed windows. Top battlemented parapet with corner pinnacles.

Listing NGR: NZ2473065042

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Legacy System number:: 304675
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.