GREAT GATE GREAT GATE (OUTER GATE,MARSH FOREGATE)

GREAT GATE (OUTER GATE,MARSH FOREGATE), PRECINCTS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1161429
Date first listed:: 07-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: GREAT GATE GREAT GATE (OUTER GATE,MARSH FOREGATE)
Statutory Address:: GREAT GATE (OUTER GATE,MARSH FOREGATE), PRECINCTS

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Date:: 2002-07-29
Reference:: IOE01/07526/06
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1161429
Date first listed:: 07-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: GREAT GATE GREAT GATE (OUTER GATE,MARSH FOREGATE)
Statutory Address 1:: GREAT GATE (OUTER GATE,MARSH FOREGATE), PRECINCTS
Statutory Address 2:: GREAT GATE, CATHEDRAL SQUARE

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:: GREAT GATE (OUTER GATE,MARSH FOREGATE), PRECINCTS
Statutory Address:: GREAT GATE, CATHEDRAL SQUARE

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

District:: City of Peterborough (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TL 19251 98640

Details

PETERBOROUGH 1. 1500 PRECINCTS Great Gate (Outer Gate, Marsh Foregate) TL 1998 NW 1/7 7.2.52 I GV 2. Erected by Abbot Benedict circa 1174-94, altered 1302-7. Chamber above origionally a Chapel to St Niicholas. Norman work in the archway with roll moulding to arch and columns with scalloped capitals, blank wall arcading above the doorYRLys to North and South and the rib vaulting. Upper part of doorway is Cl4 with blank arcade of 5 lights containing 2 windows with cusped heads. Crenellated parapet and 2 flanking turrets. (VCH Northants Vol II p455). The Great Gate, Chapel of St Thomas, Archway to Dean's Court & Nos 1 to 19. (consec) form a group.

Listing NGR: TL1925198640

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Legacy System number:: 49633
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Ryland, W, Adkins, D, Sejeantson, R, The Victoria History of the County of Northampton, (1906), 455

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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.