Forecourt Wall and Gateway to Pemberton Almshouses
FORECOURT WALL AND GATEWAY TO PEMBERTON ALMSHOUSES, ST PETER'S STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103050
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Forecourt Wall and Gateway to Pemberton Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- FORECOURT WALL AND GATEWAY TO PEMBERTON ALMSHOUSES, ST PETER'S STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-01-14
- Reference:
- IOE01/01898/08
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103050
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Forecourt Wall and Gateway to Pemberton Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORECOURT WALL AND GATEWAY TO PEMBERTON ALMSHOUSES, ST PETER'S STREET
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.
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:
- FORECOURT WALL AND GATEWAY TO PEMBERTON ALMSHOUSES, ST PETER'S STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- St. Albans (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 15001 07698
Details
ST PETER'S STREET 1. (West Side) 1582 Forecourt wall and gateway to Pemberton Almshouses TL 1407 NE 4/23 TL 1507 NW 5/23
II
2. Forecourt wall and tall, brick gateway with pointed head with small brick plinths at sides and centre, those at sides empty, that in centre having iron arrow-head pointing upwards. Round-arched door opening and stone panel above with inscription: "These 6 Almshouses were erected and endowed with Five Pounds Per Annum Each. Out of the Manor of Shelton in Bedfordshire by Roger Pemberton of St Albans Esquire, who was buried in the Church of St Peter November 20th 1627." RCHM page 194: VCH page 473.
Listing NGR: TL1500107698
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163423
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1914), 473
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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