Description

SJ 46 SW SAIGHTON C.P. CHAPEL LANE
(East side)

3/170 Abbey Gate College Gatehouse
(formerly listed as Saighton
Grange) Gateway
1/6/1967
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Gatehouse, 1490, for Abbot Ripley of St Werburgh's Benedictine Abbey,
Chester. Saighton Grange Gatehouse and buildings of Ince Manor,
Ellesmere Port (q.v.) are the only surviving monastic manorial
buildings in Cheshire. Red sandstone. Three storeys including
archway. The corners left and right of the archway are recessed, and
corbelled above to the main wall face. The four-centred arch (with
hoodmould) contains 2 recessed segmental arches. There is a blocked
arch in the right side. The second storey has a narrow single-light
window over the crown of the entrance, one lancet to the front and one
to the side of the left corner and a crenel to the right. A shared
moulded cill links the lancets to an ornate oriel of 3 arched lights
in the left wall. In the right wall is an inserted small, bevelled
rectangular window (one light). String courses at second floor and
third storey cill level. The third storey has mullioned windows of 4
arched lights, paired to the front and one in each side. All glazing
is leaded. The crenellated parapet, with moulded string, projects.
The raised, niched merlon, left, contains a stone statue. A taller,
square stair turret stands at the rear left corner. Within the
gatehouse archway is a blank embrasure to each side. The rear corners
of the archway are bevelled, as if they were reveals to a former back
arch to the gateway. The Victorian Grange (q.v.) abuts.

Listing NGR: SJ4431061793

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q96279292

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990