Landport Gate
LANDPORT GATE, ST GEORGES ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1387159
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Landport Gate
- Statutory Address:
- LANDPORT GATE, ST GEORGES ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1387159
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Landport Gate
- Statutory Address 1:
- LANDPORT GATE, ST GEORGES ROAD
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:
- LANDPORT GATE, ST GEORGES ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Portsmouth (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 63463 99717
Details
PORTSMOUTH
SZ6399 ST GEORGE'S ROAD, Portsea 774-1/12/302 Landport Gate
I
Town gate. 1760. Attributed to Nicholas Hawksmoor (executed after his death). Ashlar. Baroque. Central projecting arched part has horizontal splayed rustications, segmental arched opening with rusticated voussoirs, projecting keystone and flanking voussoirs with crown relief to keystone, moulded impost, cornice with shaped brackets set on moulded string. Stone octagonal turret with openings each set under recessed flat stone lintel and flanked by scrolled pilasters, cornice and tented roof with ball finial. On left and right return is a segmental arched opening with flanking 'filled in' flat arched openings. At north face is a 2-leaf 3 panelled diamond patterned boarded door with infill over set under similar segmental arch as at front. Internal vaulted brickwork ceiling. Flanking the centre part is a short length of the original coursed dressed stone wall now raked up to 4 courses above impost, plain string course, cornice and block parapet. Landport gate is the only Portsmouth gateway to survive on its original site. This was the principal entrance into Portsmouth prior to the demolition of the fortifications in 1875. Scheduled Ancient Monument. (Balfour A: Portsmouth: Highgate Hill, London N19: 1970-: 26, 27; Lloyd DW: Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs: Portsmouth: 1974-: 35, 57, 60, 61; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Lloyd DW: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: Harmondsworth: 1973-: 451 AND 452).
Listing NGR: SU6350800232
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475068
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lloyd, D W, Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs, (1974), 61
Lloyd, D W, Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs, (1974), 35,57,60
Balfour, A, Portsmouth, (1970), 26,27
Pevsner, N, Lloyd, D, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1973), 451,452
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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