Gateway Approximately 25 Metres North of Tower of Church of St Giles
GATEWAY APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES NORTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST GILES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1184709
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Gateway Approximately 25 Metres North of Tower of Church of St Giles
- Statutory Address:
- GATEWAY APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES NORTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST GILES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1184709
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Gateway Approximately 25 Metres North of Tower of Church of St Giles
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEWAY APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES NORTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST GILES
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:
- GATEWAY APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES NORTH OF TOWER OF CHURCH OF ST GILES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chesterton and Kingston
- National Grid Reference:
- SP3569958264
Details
In the entry for
SP35NE
5/55
CHESTERTON & KINGSTON
CHESTERTON
Gateway approx. 25m N of tower of Church of St. Giles
GV
II
The Gateway shall be upgraded to II* and the entry shall be amended
to read:-
SP35NE
5/55
07/01/52
CHESTERTON & KINGSTON
CHESTERTON
Gateway approx. 25m N of tower of Church of St. Giles
GV
II*
Gateway. Probably 1630's. For Sir Edward Peyto and copy of a design
by Inigo Jones. English bond red brick with moulded, cut and rubbed
brick. Classical style. Round arch with keyblock, pilasters,
entablature and pediment. Pilasters, wall, and arch have intermittent
rustication. It is likely that this gateway was built at about the
same time as Chesterton Windmill (q.v.). It is a close copy, at about
three-quarters scale, of one of the two churchyard gateways flanking
Jones' St Paul, Covent Garden, of 1631, see Vitruvius Britannicus (ii,
1717, pl 21-2).
(VCH: Warwickshire. Vol 5. p.42; Buildings of England, Warwickshire,
p.230).
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SP35NE
5/55
07/01/52
CHESTERTON AND KINGSTON
CHESTERTON
Gateway approx. 25m N of tower of Church of St. Giles
GV
II
Gateway. c.1650 - 1660. Possibly designed by John Stone. English bond red brick,
with moulded, cut and rubbed brick. Classical style. Round arch with keyblock.
Pilasters, entablature and pediment. Pilasters, wall and arch have intermittent
rustication. Pediment has C20 tiles. The gateway is all that remains of
Chesterton House, demolished in 1802.
V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol.5, p.42; Buildings of England; Warwickshire, p.230).
Listing NGR: SP3569958264
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 307049
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1949), 42
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 230
Vitruvius Britannicus in Vitruvius Britannicus, Vol. 2, (1725)
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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