GATES AND GATEPIERS ABOUT 400 METRES SOUTH EAST OF WOOD NORTON HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1349990
Date first listed:: 09-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: GATES AND GATEPIERS ABOUT 400 METRES SOUTH EAST OF WOOD NORTON HALL
Statutory Address:: GATES AND GATEPIERS ABOUT 400 METRES SOUTH EAST OF WOOD NORTON HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1349990
Date first listed:: 09-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: GATES AND GATEPIERS ABOUT 400 METRES SOUTH EAST OF WOOD NORTON HALL
Statutory Address 1:: GATES AND GATEPIERS ABOUT 400 METRES SOUTH EAST OF WOOD NORTON HALL

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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Statutory Address:: GATES AND GATEPIERS ABOUT 400 METRES SOUTH EAST OF WOOD NORTON HALL

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

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Wychavon (District Authority)
Parish:: Norton and Lenchwick
National Grid Reference:: SP 01849 46705

Details

NORTON AND LENCHWICK WOOD NORTON SP 04 NW

3/125 Gates and gate piers about 400 metres south-east of Wood Norton Hall

- II

The description shall be amended:

SP 04 NW NORTON AND LENCHWICK WOOD NORTON

1559-0/3/125 Gates and Gate-piers about 09/01/87 400 metres south-east of Wood Norton Hall

GV II

Gates and gate-piers. Circa 1897-8, for the Duc d'Orleans. The gates were reputedly made by J. Starke Gardner. Wrought-iron and ashlar. Two octagonal stone piers capped by wrought-iron lamp standards with crown finials. Central pair of carriage gates hung on wrought-iron piers, flanked by two pedestrian gates. Overthrow has three fleur-de-lis on a shield borne by two angels, with the inscription "Mountjoyce Denis". The gates were formerly thought to be C18 and to have come from Versailles, via Orleans House, Twickenham. SOURCES: The Connoisseur, November 1924. Buildings of England, p 227.

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NORTON & LENCHWICK CP WOOD NORTON SP 04 NW

3/125 Gates and gate piers about 1100 metres south- east of Wood Norton Hall

- II

Gates and gate piers. 1872 incorporating C18 gates. Wrought iron and ashlar. Two octagonal stone piers capped by wrought iron lamp supports with crown finials. Central pair of carriage gates hung on wrought iron piers, flanked by two pedestrian gates. Overthrow has three fleurs-de-lys on a shield borne by two angels, with the inscription "Montjoyce Denis". The gates are said to be from Versailles, via Orleans House, Twickenham. Wood Norton Hall is not included in this list. (BoE, p 227).

Listing NGR: SP0184946705

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Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 227
'The Connoisseur' in November, (1924)

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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.