GATEWAY TO CHURCH OF ST GEORGE

GATEWAY TO CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, ST GEORGES SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390097
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:: GATEWAY TO CHURCH OF ST GEORGE
Statutory Address:: GATEWAY TO CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, ST GEORGES SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390097
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:: GATEWAY TO CHURCH OF ST GEORGE
Statutory Address 1:: GATEWAY TO CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, ST GEORGES SQUARE

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GATEWAY TO CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, ST GEORGES SQUARE

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

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Worcester (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO8473256208

Details

WORCESTER

SO8456SE ST GEORGE'S SQUARE 620-1/6/562 (East side) 05/04/71 Gateway to church of St George

GV II

Gates, gate piers and flanking walls. Dated 1938. Rustic red brick with cream-coloured stone details. Wrought-iron gates. Bronze plaque. Principal pair of gate piers linked by approx. 2.5m of flanking wall to outer pair of shorter piers. Walls slightly curved in plan; concave ramp up to main piers. Piers are quare with inset corners and raised panels; chamfered top plinths to piers and walls. Stone detailing includes plain wall coping linked to main piers by scrolled brackets; ornate pier caps with moulded cornice details and surmounted by ball finials. Gates composed of mainly vertical bars surmounted by central scroll decoration with urn finials. Small shield on hinge-side of each gate, cross of St. George to left, red rose to right. Plaque on left-hand pier inscribed, 'ERECTED TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF WILHELMENA ROSS-MACKENZIE OF THIS PARISH WHO PASSED AWAY ON JULY 4TH 1938.'

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 489067
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.