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Latitude: 53.474 / 53°28'26"N
Longitude: -1.4052 / 1°24'18"W
OS Eastings: 439577
OS Northings: 397633
OS Grid: SK395976
Mapcode National: GBR LXM8.LD
Mapcode Global: WHDD4.DY35
Plus Code: 9C5WFHFV+HW
Entry Name: Gateway with Attached Plinth Wall and Ironwork Screen Forming South Side of South Court at Wentworth Woodhouse
Listing Date: 21 August 1985
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1193422
English Heritage Legacy ID: 335623
Location: Wentworth, Rotherham, S62
County: Rotherham
Civil Parish: Wentworth
Built-Up Area: Wentworth
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): South Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Wentworth Holy Trinity
Church of England Diocese: Sheffield
SK39NE WENTWORTH WENTWORTH WOODHOUSE
4/116 Gateway with attached
plinth wall and ironwork
screen forming south side
of south court at
Wentworth Woodhouse
GV II*
Gateway with attached plinth wall and ironwork screen. Gateway c1630;
refixed and screen added probably in mid C18. For the Wentworth estate.
Limestone gateway; dressed sandstone plinth wall and ashlar piers; wrought-
iron screen. Set in straight line with south-facing gateway linked via
plinth wall and single ironwork panel to south-east corner of south wing
of Wentworth Woodhouse west front (q.v.); 3 ironwork panels to east of
gateway with linking plinth wall and intermediate piers and end pier.
Gateway in Artisan Mannerist style after a design by Dietterlin of c1584
(English Heritage). Square-headed opening flanked by fluted Doric
pilasters with alternate blocking; panel beneath, and scrollwork within,
tympanum of open pediment surmounted by pedestals and more scrolls.
Deeply-coursed plinth wall links corniced ashlar piers. Excellent
ironwork panels with bars interspersed with upthrusting barbed spikes;
elaborate frieze crested by scrollwork to spiked and foliate finials.
English Heritage, Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest
In England, South Yorkshire, Rotherham, Wentworth.
Listing NGR: SK3957797633
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