Description

In the entry for the following building:-
ST 63 SE BRUTON CP REDLYNCH

5/201 The Towers
(also known as Chequers Towers)

28.11.80 II

the grade and description shall be amended to read:

ST 63 SE BRUTON CP REDLYNCH
5/201 The Towers
(also known as Chequers Towers)

28.11.80 II*

Monumental gateway. Late C18. Coursed and dressed limestone with
Doulting stone dressings; no roofs. Gothick style. Twin circular
turrets with pointed Y-tracery openings having iron grilles on
roadside, with pointed arched openings opposite; quatrefoil openings
each side beneath cornice with pear-drop frieze and castellated
parapets, these being continued at a lower level surmounting the full-
height link wall between the turrets. Large central pointed-arched
archway flanked by shields with the Ilchester arms. Curved sweep walls
to either side terminating in octagonal ashlar piers with plinths and
coved projecting caps. Built by Lord Ilchester for the principal
entrance to Redlynch Park (qv), probably to impress George III who was
frequently there on his trips to Weymouth. Stephen Fox was elevated
to the peerage as Lord Ilchester in 1741, the builder of this gateway
being Henry-Thomas who succeeded to the title on his father's death
in 1776.

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BRUTON CP
ST63SE
REDLYNCH
5/201 The Towers
(also known as Chequer Towers)
28.11.80
II

Monunental gateway, C18. Local stone cut and squared, with Doulting stone dressings; no roofs. Twin circular turrets
with pointed 'Y'-tracery openings having iron grilles on roadside, with pointed arched openings opposite, above
quatrefoil openings each side, battlemented tops; full height link wall between turrets with ornamental cornice and
battlementing over large central pointed archway flanked by shields with the Ilchester arms. Curved sweep walls to
either side terminating in octagonal ashlar piers with plinths and coved projecting caps. Built by Lord Ilchester for
the principal entrance to Redlynch Park (qv), probably to impress George III, a frequent visitor there on his trips to
Weymouth. (Couzens P, Bruton in Selwood, Abbey Press, Sherborne, 1972).

Listing NGR: ST6854032467

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17554085

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