Former north gates and gatepiers to Tong Castle with flanking retaining walls and bollards, approximately 30 metres to south west of The Old Post Office
Former north gates and gatepiers to Tong Castle with flanking retaining walls and bollards, approximately 30 metres to south west of The Old Post Office, Newport Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1053608
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Former north gates and gatepiers to Tong Castle with flanking retaining walls and bollards, approximately 30 metres to south west of The Old Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- Former north gates and gatepiers to Tong Castle with flanking retaining walls and bollards, approximately 30 metres to south west of The Old Post Office, Newport Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1053608
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Former north gates and gatepiers to Tong Castle with flanking retaining walls and bollards, approximately 30 metres to south west of The Old Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- Former north gates and gatepiers to Tong Castle with flanking retaining walls and bollards, approximately 30 metres to south west of The Old Post Office, Newport Road
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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Former north gates and gatepiers to Tong Castle with flanking retaining walls and bollards, approximately 30 metres to south west of The Old Post Office, Newport Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tong
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 79654 07364
Details
SJ 70 NE
6/29
TONG C.P.
NEWPORT ROAD (south west side)
Former north gates and gatepiers to Tong Castle with flanking retaining walls and bollards, approximately 30 metres to south west of The Old Post Office.
GV
II
Gates, flanking walls, and bollards. Late C18 or early C19. Two wrought iron gates with fleur-de-lys railings. Flanking walls: squared and coursed sandstone approximately 5 metres long and 1 metre high. Dentil brick chamfered coping, central segmental arched niches with flanking recessed Latin and Maltese crosses; square gate and end piers with dentil brick coping. Low flanking retaining walls, approximately 20 metres to left and 60 metres to right. Bollards on bank behind retaining wall, four to left of gates and eleven to right, with chain links between; cannon type with acanthus necking, finials, Durant shields with motto: "Heati qui Durant" ("Blessed are those who endure" or "Blessed are the Durants") .
The bollards were brought from near the castle when it ceased to be lived in. The walls have similar details to that East of Convent Lodge (qv) entrance which are dated 1821, but if they date from the building of the Castle (qv) in 1765 they are probably by its Architect, 'Capability' Brown.
Listing NGR: SJ7965507365
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255311
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Robinson, D H, The Wandering Worfe, (1980), 56
Griffith, G, History of Tong and Boscobel, (1894), 89-92, 154-161
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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