Description

1. Gate House of
1042 Devizes Castle

SU 0061 2/217A

II

2.
Dating from the later phase of the present castle's expansion, circa 1860
rock faced gate house. Large round tower and lower square tower flanking
gateway with machicollated crenellated parapets. The double gird pattern
timber gates are set in a large Norman archway, flanked by heavy shafts
with cushion capitals. Above the arch linking the towers a deeply machicollated
parapet with zig zag, the centre merlon stepped up with coat of arms. To
the town front there are only slit windows but facing the castle, the round
tower has small deeply recessed Norman windows and 3 larger ones with leaded
casements, the ground floor one with double gabled dripmould, the others
with arohed dripmoulds. Round headed doorway with dripmould decorated with
lion head at crown. The square tower has 1 similar small Ist floor window
and similar doorway on ground floor, the door with diamond battens and diamond
light. Picturesque.

Listing NGR: SU0032861361

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26541501

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)