Rowntree Park Memorial Gates
ROWNTREE PARK MEMORIAL GATES, TERRY AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1256477
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Rowntree Park Memorial Gates
- Statutory Address:
- ROWNTREE PARK MEMORIAL GATES, TERRY AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1256477
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Mar-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Rowntree Park Memorial Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROWNTREE PARK MEMORIAL GATES, TERRY AVENUE
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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:
- ROWNTREE PARK MEMORIAL GATES, TERRY AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- York (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 60459 50621
Details
YORK
SE65SW TERRY AVENUE
1112-1/2/1064 (West side)
24/06/83 Rowntree Park Memorial Gates
(Formerly Listed as:
TERRY AVENUE
Memorial gates, screens and piers at
east side of Rowntree's Park
fronting road)
II*
Carriage and pedestrian gates, screen walls, railings and
terminal piers forming main gate to Rowntree Park. Early C18;
installed at the Terry Avenue entrance in 1954. Screen walls
are of brick in stretcher bond with flat stone coping; gates
and railings of cast and wrought-iron; terminal piers of
Portland stone. Concave curve on plan.
Double carriage gates and flanking footgates incorporate
scrolled panels and mid rails of arabesques and rinceaux;
supporting panel piers and cresting utilise the same motifs.
On each side, low screen walls carry square section railings
with pointed finials, ramped up to gates. Rectangular terminal
piers, approximately 3.0 metres high, with moulded bases and
caps, are surmounted by damaged figures of standing cherubs,
now headless.
HISTORICAL NOTE: gates were acquired from an uncertain source
and set up at the entrance to Rowntree Park as a Second World
War memorial. The Park itself is a First World War memorial.
(An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of the City of York:
RCHME: South-west of the Ouse: HMSO: 1972-: 58).
Listing NGR: SE6045950621
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 27 July 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 464875
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York III South West, (1972), 58
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 1 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/47204
War Memorials Online, accessed 1 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/195454
War Memorials Online, accessed 27 July 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/242332
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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