Description

RAMSGATE GOODWIN ROAD
TR 3664 SE
(west side)
16/116 Gateway and
walls to former
Abbey School
II
Gateway and walls. 1864-5, possibly by Edward Welby Pugin. Yellow brick and
red brick bands and ashlar details. Quadrant walls either side of
gateway about 10 feet in height with coping, extending about 10 yards
to piers, obscured by vegetation with boarded door in right hand wall.
Central gateway with multiple order surround and hood mould with gable
over with fleur-de-lys pinnacle supporting bifurcated cross. Buttresses
to left and to right, the former with sculpt1Joalscene in medallion, the
latter with statue in niche. The gate, with the adjacent lodges and
walls, was part of a convent built for Benedictine nuns in 1864-5
under the auspices of St. Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate, from 1878 a
boarding school for girls run by the sisters of the Assumption.

Listing NGR: TR3671464467

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26623165

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)