Deanery Gateway and Wall
DEANERY GATEWAY AND WALL, PRECINCTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1331494
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Deanery Gateway and Wall
- Statutory Address:
- DEANERY GATEWAY AND WALL, PRECINCTS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1331494
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Deanery Gateway and Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- DEANERY GATEWAY AND WALL, PRECINCTS
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:
- DEANERY GATEWAY AND WALL, PRECINCTS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Peterborough (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL1933698682
Details
1.
1500
TL 1998 NW
1/12
7.2.52
PETERBOROUGH
PRECINCTS
Deanery Gateway and wall
I
GV
2.
Early C16. Built by Abbot Kirkton and displaying his rebus. Wide stone
archway, with narrower one for foot passengers to the right and with a wall
in coursed stone with a moulded cornice and ashlar parapet to the left.
Main arch has richly carved heraldic panels with foliated panels below.
Carved arch of the See and Chapter in the spandrels of the arch. Lower
arch in coursed rubble with stone dressings and cornice. Both have crenellated
parapets. VCH Vol II.
Deanery Gateway and Wall, Prior's Gate, No 12 & Stables & Wall to Prior's Gate
form a group.
Listing NGR: TL1933698682
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 49642
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ryland, W, Adkins, D, Sejeantson, R, The Victoria History of the County of Northampton, (1906)
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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