Auckland Castle Entrance Gateway
AUCKLAND CASTLE ENTRANCE GATEWAY, AUCKLAND CASTLE PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1297645
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Auckland Castle Entrance Gateway
- Statutory Address:
- AUCKLAND CASTLE ENTRANCE GATEWAY, AUCKLAND CASTLE PARK
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1297645
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Auckland Castle Entrance Gateway
- Statutory Address 1:
- AUCKLAND CASTLE ENTRANCE GATEWAY, AUCKLAND CASTLE PARK
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:
- AUCKLAND CASTLE ENTRANCE GATEWAY, AUCKLAND CASTLE PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishop Auckland
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 21300 30124
Details
BISHOP AUCKLAND
NZ2130 AUCKLAND CASTLE PARK 634-1/8/81 (East side) 21/04/52 Auckland Castle entrance gateway (Formerly Listed as: MARKET PLACE Entrance Gateway to the Castle)
GV I
Castle gateway with gates. 1760. By Sir Thomas Robinson of Rokeby for Bishop William Trevor. Ashlar with ashlar dressings and lead roofs. Gothick style. Vehicle arch in high gate flanked by lower screen walls with pedestrian arches. Moulded pointed arch rests on impost and chamfered pilasters, flanked by triple shafts with clasping rings which end in tall octagonal spirelets with bud finials. Recessed pairs of Gothic daggers in spandrels. Narrow set back side sections have niches with ogee heads, below pierced quatrefoils. Architrave, frieze and cornice, in manner of Classical entablature, and battlemented parapet. Square clock tower set on sloping, lead-covered plinth behind parapet, has angle pilasters with ball-topped obelisk finials, and swept low pyramidal lead spire with ball finial. Clocks on east and west fronts, blind quatrefoils with cross slits on north and south. Central arch has quadripartite ribs, and pointed arched door surround and oak panelled door in south wall. Flanking lower side walls have moulded, pointed arches, and eaves string below battlements. Rear elevation similar to front. Vehicle and pedestrian gates have spear-headed alternate principals and dogbars; pedestrian arches have wrought-iron guards in arch heads. (Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840: London: 1978-: 703).
Listing NGR: NZ2130030124
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385599
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 703
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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