Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW COLLEGE GREEN
844-1/8/80 (West side)
23/01/52 St Mary's Gate adjoining No.14
College Green

GV I

Formerly known as: College Gate COLLEGE GREEN.
Gatehouse, now includes offices. Late C12, refronted and
heightened in early C13; for the Benedictine Abbey of St Peter
as the Great Gate to the Outer Court of the monastery, now
part of College Green; altered in C18 and restored in late C19
by FS Waller for the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral.
Ashlar, rubble, tiled roof, wrought-iron gates.
PLAN: gate passage leads from St Mary's Square into north-west
corner of College Green, passage covered by two bays of
quadripatite vaulting; with a large chamber at first-floor
level above the passage.
EXTERIOR: two storeys with cross gabled fronts facing the
street and the court; the outer front facing St Mary's Street
has a large arch to the passage with recessed orders to the
jambs, formerly with nook shafts, and at first-floor level an
arcade of four bays with the two inner bays flanked by smaller
bays; the inner bays framing windows with flat lintels; in the
gable a recessed triangular panel within which are the jambs
and arches of a three-bay blank arcade with the shafts
removed. The inner front above the archway to the passage
restored in late C19; similar to outer front.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Scheduled Ancient Monument.
(VCH: The City of Gloucester: Oxford: 1988-: 282; Welander D:
The History, Art and Architecture of Gloucester Cathedral:
Stroud, Gloucestershire: 1991-).

Listing NGR: SO8300818865

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17525920

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)