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Latitude: 51.7963 / 51°47'46"N
Longitude: -0.0793 / 0°4'45"W
OS Eastings: 532546
OS Northings: 212595
OS Grid: TL325125
Mapcode National: GBR KBQ.BRV
Mapcode Global: VHGPN.K3XS
Plus Code: 9C3XQWWC+G7
Entry Name: Gates to the Grounds of Hertford Castle (Hertford Castle Demolished)
Listing Date: 9 September 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1268697
English Heritage Legacy ID: 461538
ID on this website: 101268697
Location: Hertford, East Hertfordshire, SG14
County: Hertfordshire
District: East Hertfordshire
Civil Parish: Hertford
Built-Up Area: Hertford
Traditional County: Hertfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire
Church of England Parish: Hertford St Andrew with St Nicholas
Church of England Diocese: St.Albans
Tagged with: Gate
HERTFORD
TL3212NE THE WASH
817-1/17/236 (East side)
Gates to the grounds of Hertford
Castle (Hertford Castle demolished)
GV II
Gates, piers, and flanking balustrades. 1912. Architect James
Farley. Terracotta and wrought-iron.
Twin leaf carriage gates in centre, with spears, scrolls,
quatrefoils and embattled upper rails, with projecting
scrollwork tops to suggest an overthrow. Gates letter
'HERTFORD CASTLE'. Smaller scale pedestrian gates of similar
style left and right. Octagonal Gothic style terracotta piers,
with plinths, roll mouldings, cavetto mouldings and recessed
panels above, with blind moulded trefoil-head tracery.
Octagonal offset caps to main piers with modelled lions
holding shields with Borough arms. Other piers simpler and
lower, with moulded octahedral caps. Gateway set back from
kerb line, with curved balustrades left and right, having
plinths moulded column-on-urn balustrades, and moulded top
rail, terminating in low octagonal piers.
Commemorative plaques record that the gates were presented by
Osmond Henry McMullen, Mayor of Hertford and were opened by
James Edward Humbert Gascoyne, Marquess of Salisbury, on July
27 1912. The Salisbury family are freeholders of Hertford
Castle, and the gates commemorate the presentation of a long
lease on the castle to the town, at a peppercorn rent.
(Green L: Hertford's Past in pictures: Ware: 1993-: 19).
Listing NGR: TL3254612595
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