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Latitude: 52.2039 / 52°12'13"N
Longitude: -2.2248 / 2°13'29"W
OS Eastings: 384732
OS Northings: 256208
OS Grid: SO847562
Mapcode National: GBR 1FY.VQ2
Mapcode Global: VH92M.DV5W
Plus Code: 9C4V6Q3G+H3
Entry Name: Gateway to Church of St George
Listing Date: 5 April 1971
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1390097
English Heritage Legacy ID: 489067
ID on this website: 101390097
Location: Britannia Square, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR1
County: Worcestershire
District: Worcester
Electoral Ward/Division: Arboretum
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Worcester
Traditional County: Worcestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Worcestershire
Church of England Parish: Worcester St George with St Mary Magdalene
Church of England Diocese: Worcester
Tagged with: Gate
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.'
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