GRACE GATES AT LORD'S CRICKET GROUND

GRACE GATES AT LORD'S CRICKET GROUND, ST JOHN'S WOOD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246985
Date first listed:: 07-Feb-1996
List Entry Name:: GRACE GATES AT LORD'S CRICKET GROUND
Statutory Address:: GRACE GATES AT LORD'S CRICKET GROUND, ST JOHN'S WOOD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246985
Date first listed:: 07-Feb-1996
List Entry Name:: GRACE GATES AT LORD'S CRICKET GROUND
Statutory Address 1:: GRACE GATES AT LORD'S CRICKET GROUND, ST JOHN'S WOOD ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GRACE GATES AT LORD'S CRICKET GROUND, ST JOHN'S WOOD ROAD

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: City of Westminster (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ2682482621

Details

TQ 2682 NE 1900-/22/10093

ST JOHN'S WOOD ROAD (north side) Grace Gates at Lord's Cricket Ground

GV II

Gates and flanking walls and piers, erected as a memorial to W G Grace in 1923 by Herbert Baker. Cast-iron gates set within exedra of Portland stone. Two pairs of gates topped with motif of cricket ball surrounded by sun's rays, either side of central pier with single triglyph of cricket stumps under urn with English lion. In centre an inscription: 'TO THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM GILBERT GRACE THE GREAT CRICKETER: 1848-1915: THESE GATES WERE ERECTED: THE MCC AND OTHER FRIENDS AND ADMIRERS'. The gates set within an exedra of curved walls with moulded cornice and base. Piers with urns; swags and voussoirs over low doors giving pedestrian access to either side. W G Grace played first-class cricket for 43 years. He was the unrivalled champion of English cricket in the late nineteenth century when the game was established in its present form. Source: Herbert Baker, Architecture and Personalities, 1944, p.18.

Listing NGR: TQ2682482621

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Legacy System number:: 456104
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Baker, H, Architecture and Personalities, (1944), 18

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.