Description

PETERBOROUGH
1.
1500
PRECINCTS
Great Gate
(Outer Gate, Marsh Foregate)
TL 1998 NW 1/7 7.2.52
I GV
2.
Erected by Abbot Benedict circa 1174-94, altered 1302-7. Chamber above
origionally a Chapel to St Niicholas. Norman work in the archway with roll
moulding to arch and columns with scalloped capitals, blank wall arcading
above the doorYRLys to North and South and the rib vaulting. Upper part
of doorway is Cl4 with blank arcade of 5 lights containing 2 windows with
cusped heads. Crenellated parapet and 2 flanking turrets.
(VCH Northants Vol II p455).
The Great Gate, Chapel of St Thomas, Archway to Dean's Court & Nos 1 to 19.
(consec) form a group.

Listing NGR: TL1925198640

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17528710

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Recommended Books

• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)