Lion Gate to Ince Blundell Hall

LION GATE TO INCE BLUNDELL HALL, MOOR LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1075867
Date first listed:
11-Oct-1968
List Entry Name:
Lion Gate to Ince Blundell Hall
Statutory Address:
LION GATE TO INCE BLUNDELL HALL, MOOR LANE
The Lion gate to Ince Blundell Hall. Originally built 1770-1776. Entrance archway with flanking pedestrian entrances.
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Date:
1999-08-10
Reference:
IOE01/01678/09
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1075867
Date first listed:
11-Oct-1968
List Entry Name:
Lion Gate to Ince Blundell Hall
Statutory Address 1:
LION GATE TO INCE BLUNDELL HALL, MOOR LANE

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
LION GATE TO INCE BLUNDELL HALL, MOOR LANE

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

District:
Sefton (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Ince Blundell
National Grid Reference:
SD 32979 02123

Details

6/63
11.10.68

INCE BLUNDELL
MOOR LANE
SD 30 SW
(north-east side)Lion gate to Ince Blundell Hall


GII
Entrance archway with flanking pedestrian entrances.1770-76,with mid C19 addition.Central round-arched entrance with impost continued as cornice band; archivolt and keystone.Flanking Doric columns and entablature with two bucrania and rosettes to metopes.Broken pediment has central cartouche bearing Weld-Blundell arms supporting urn with rams' heads and swags,and with flanking festoons.Cartouche and urn added after 1847.Pedestrian entrances have rusticated surrounds and flat arches supporting bases with swags and rosettes and,to the left entrance,a
lioness,and a lion to the right.Entrances have mid C19 cast iron gates,paired to central entrance.Set in brick estate wall with stone coping.Design copied from painting C.1690 by Sebastiano Ricci,"The Marriage of Bacchus and Ariadne"at one time in the hall.


Listing NGR: SD3297902123

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Legacy System number:
216461
Legacy System:
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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 28 Merseyside,

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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.

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