Description

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ4166 GROSVENOR PARK
1932-1/6/131 (North side)
10/01/72 Park wall between main Gateway & St
Augustine's Convent (convent not
included)
(Formerly Listed as:
GROSVENOR PARK
Boundary Wall round Grosvenor Park)

GV II

Part of boundary wall of Grosvenor Park, to Union Street,
between Main gateway to park (qv) and St Augustine's Convent
(not included), with gate piers. 1865-1867. By John Douglas at
expense of 2nd Marquis of Westminster. For Chester City
Council. Squared snecked sandstone rubble and granite. Plinth
with replaced railings opposite lodge (qv); wall 2 metres high
to lodge yard with oak boarded door on ornate hinges in
stop-chamfered opening with lintel on brackets; replaced
railings on weathered plinth as far as gateway opposite Bath
Street; pair of granite piers diminishing to octagonal
section, with twice weathered caps; the wall continues, with
minor openings, to the curtilage of St Augustine's Convent.
(Chester City Council and Committee: Park Committee Minutes:
1865-1867: PASSIM; Hubbard E: The Work of John Douglas:
London: 1991-: 28; 46-48).

Listing NGR: SJ4112666312

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q66658857

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)