GATEWAY TO SOUTH OF ELMORE COURT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1340625
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1955
List Entry Name:: GATEWAY TO SOUTH OF ELMORE COURT
Statutory Address:: GATEWAY TO SOUTH OF ELMORE COURT

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Date:: 2000-06-17
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1340625
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1955
List Entry Name:: GATEWAY TO SOUTH OF ELMORE COURT
Statutory Address 1:: GATEWAY TO SOUTH OF ELMORE COURT

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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Location

Statutory Address:: GATEWAY TO SOUTH OF ELMORE COURT

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Stroud (District Authority)
Parish:: Elmore
National Grid Reference:: SO 78287 15192

Details

SO 71 NE ELMORE ELMORE VILLAGE

1/54 Gateway to south of Elmore Court

10.1.55

II*

Carriage and pedestrian gateway; flanking walls and piers. Early C18; flanking walls are mid Cl9. By William Edney, blacksmith of Bristol for Sir John Guise at Rendcomb. Wrought iron; lias flanking walls. Central carriage gateway with flanking fixed panels and outer single-leaf pedestrian gates; curved flanking walls terminated by piers. 3 pairs of open-work piers, one within the other, of increasing size, all mounted on stone bases; inner 2 pairs with scroll-work; all topped by cyma moulded cornice and open-work urn-shaped finials on scrolled pedestals. Carriage gates have fern leaf cartouche in upper panel; fixed scrolled frame with cornice continuing from inner piers providing base of scrolled overthrow which includes monogram surmounted by swan badge of Guise family. Ball finials to flanking wall piers, each with Celtic cross. Wall continues to right of gateway, is terminated by stone pier with ball finial, and surmounted by iron railings. Gateway was removed from Rendcomb and re-erected here in early C19. (D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1976.)

Listing NGR: SO7828715192

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Legacy System number:: 131710
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Verey, D , The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)

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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.