Abbey Gatehouse and Adjoining Wall to East
ABBEY GATEHOUSE AND ADJOINING WALL TO EAST, ABBEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1238022
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Gatehouse and Adjoining Wall to East
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEY GATEHOUSE AND ADJOINING WALL TO EAST, ABBEY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1238022
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Gatehouse and Adjoining Wall to East
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBEY GATEHOUSE AND ADJOINING WALL TO EAST, ABBEY 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:
- ABBEY GATEHOUSE AND ADJOINING WALL TO EAST, ABBEY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kingswood
- National Grid Reference:
- ST7471192036
Details
ST 79 SW KINGSWOOD ABBEY STREET
(north side)
7/256 Abbey Gate-house and adjoining
wall to east (latter formerly listed
23.6.52 as Cottage occupied by S. Worrell)
GV I
Abbey Gate-house. Early C16. Ashlar with Cotswold stone slate
roof. 2 storeys. Central large moulded pointed arch, with slit
window opening to left, additional smaller arch to right with
straight head to south and niche above, and pointed arch to north
at rear, 2-light mullion and transom window with 4 equal sized
lights over main arch. Niche has carved side colonnettes and
elaborate crocketed canopy which once held a statue, probably of
the Virgin, with a carved dove above. Window has highly decorative
lily carved on main mullion and carved pointed hood mould. 2 side
buttresses with diagonally set small square piers at first floor
level with crockets, and pinnacles with crockets. 2 string
courses. Gable verge has crockets and finial depicts carved
Crucifixion scene.
Interior of gateway has lierne vault with carved bosses in passage,
rear has relieving arch spanning both archways, with some mouldings
remaining, and upper storey faced in boards and with C20 window
inserted. Room above passage of 2 bays with 2 tiers of arched wind
bracing and additional unbraced upper tier, blocked 2-light trefoil
head stone mullion window on west side and stepped window seat to
large south window. Room reached from moulded 4-centre stone
archway immediately to right at rear of gateway which has narrow,
chamfered Tudor arch adjoining and remains of pointed stone
relieving arch over with corbel to left, apparently all part of the
original fabric of the gate-house.
To east of gate-house on south side, former cottages now curtain
wall only and part of the original fabric of the gate-house. 2
storeys, 3 window openings with square stopped hood moulds at each
end on first floor and on door opening to left on ground floor.
Central buttress with diagonally set pier similar to main gate-
house buttresses but without pinnacle. The Gate-house and flanking
walls are all that remains of the Cistercian Kingswood Abbey and
are scheduled as Ancient Monument No. 70. (David Verey, Buildings
of England - Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dean,
1980).
Listing NGR: ST7471192036
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 415362
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)
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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