Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4065NE LOWER BRIDGE STREET
595-1/6/246 The Bridgegate
28/07/55
(Formerly Listed as:
The Bridgegate)

GV I

Archway in place of City gatehouse. 1781-2. By Joseph Turner.
For Chester City Corporation. Yellow sandstone ashlar.
Classical. Segmental arch over carriageway with a round
pedestrian archway in each projecting abutment. Chamfered
rustication beneath impost level and in reveals and intrados.
A recessed panel in entablature above each face of each
pedestrian arch: over north face of east arch inscribed The
Old Gate having long been inconvenient was taken down A.D.
MDCCLXXXI JOSEPH SNOW MAYOR THOMAS AMERY: HENRY HEGG
Treasurers; over north face of west arch: This Gate was begun
April MDCCLXXXII and finished December the same Year: THOMAS
PATTON Esquire Mayor: THOMAS COTGREAVE Esquire: HENRY HESKETH
Esquire Treasurers; over south face of west arch carved
fasces; over south face of east arch a carved balance.
Balustraded parapets.
Joseph Turner was also architect of the Watergate, 1788 (qv).
(Chester City Assembly Books: 1781-1782).

Listing NGR: SJ4067565829

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Bridgegate at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q4966498

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair