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Latitude: 53.1926 / 53°11'33"N
Longitude: -2.8912 / 2°53'28"W
OS Eastings: 340556
OS Northings: 366539
OS Grid: SJ405665
Mapcode National: GBR 7B.2S89
Mapcode Global: WH88F.K0GT
Plus Code: 9C5V54V5+2G
Entry Name: Front Garden Wall to Bishops House Including Gate Piers and Arch
Listing Date: 10 January 1972
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1376034
English Heritage Legacy ID: 470020
ID on this website: 101376034
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066NE ABBEY SQUARE
595-1/2/21 Front garden wall to Bishop's House
10/01/72 including gate piers and arch
GV II
Front garden wall and gate piers to Bishop's House (qv). C18
with probably earlier plinth, altered. Sandstone and Flemish
bond brown brick to Abbey Square and English garden wall bond
brickwork, partly renewed, to Abbey Street. Plinth of coursed
sandstone; square gate piers to Abbey Square have plain
plinths and fluted capstones with cornices crowned with
pyramidal tops with stone balls. A wrought-iron pedestrian
gate in stone Gothick gateway with trefoil-headed panels in
the posts and a cusped ogee carved in the lintel under a coved
stone hood to Abbey Street. The wall coping in stone; a
stepped gable to a shed in the garden at corner of Abbey
Square; the plinth east of the gateway to Abbey Street is
re-faced.
Listing NGR: SJ4055166538
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