REMAINS OF WEST GATE

REMAINS OF WEST GATE, THE CLOSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1291737
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: REMAINS OF WEST GATE
Statutory Address:: REMAINS OF WEST GATE, THE CLOSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1291737
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: REMAINS OF WEST GATE
Statutory Address 1:: REMAINS OF WEST GATE, THE CLOSE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: REMAINS OF WEST GATE, THE CLOSE

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County:: Staffordshire
District:: Lichfield (District Authority)
Parish:: Lichfield
National Grid Reference:: SK 11422 09691

Details

LICHFIELD

SK1109NW THE CLOSE 1094-1/4/224 (West side) 05/02/52 Remains of West Gate

GV II

Remains of the north side of the west gate of the Close fortifications, probably the south wall. c1300, completed c1322-58. For Bishop Langton. Ashlar. Wall, approx. 2 storeys in height, with short returns. Offset to top and to plinth on left return. Small segmental-headed entrance. One of the few remaining visible parts of the Close fortifications; the rest of the gate was demolished to make way for Newton's College (qv). (Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade MW: Lichfield: Oxford: 1990-: P.60; ).

Listing NGR: SK1142309692

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Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1990), 60

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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.