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Latitude: 53.1938 / 53°11'37"N
Longitude: -2.8934 / 2°53'36"W
OS Eastings: 340411
OS Northings: 366674
OS Grid: SJ404666
Mapcode National: GBR 79.2ZMH
Mapcode Global: WH887.JZFF
Plus Code: 9C5V54V4+GM
Entry Name: The Northgate
Listing Date: 28 July 1955
Last Amended: 6 August 1998
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1376370
English Heritage Legacy ID: 470365
Also known as: Northgate, Chester
ID on this website: 101376370
Location: Chester, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, CH1
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Electoral Ward/Division: Chester City
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Chester
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire
Church of England Parish: Chester, St Peter
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: Gate Arch bridge
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066NW NORTHGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/1/301 The Northgate
28/07/55
(Formerly Listed as:
The Northgate)
GV I
Archway carrying the City Walls footpath over Northgate
Street. Built in place of the former medieval Gatehouse in
1810 by Thomas Harrison for the City Council. Pale red
sandstone ashlar. A segmental arch with coffered soffit spans
the carriageway; a rectangular portal for the pavement to
either side has an attached unfluted Greek Doric column at
each corner. A dentilled cornice carries a panelled parapet to
each side of the Walls footpath. The broad central panel of
the north parapet is inscribed:
INCHOATA GUIELMO NEWELL ARM. MAI. A.D. MDCCCVIII:
PERFECTA THOMA GROSVENOR ARM. MAI. A.D. MDCCCX:
THOMA HARRISON ARCHITECTO
The north parapet is inscribed:
PROTAM SEPTENTRIONALEM SUBSTRUCTAM A ROMANE VETUSTATE JAM
DILAPSURAM:
COMES GROSVENOR A.R. GEORGII TERTII LI.
The adjacent City Wall parapets, a little lower, are swept
upwards to the abutments of the Northgate.
(Bartholomew City Guides: Harris B: Chester: Edinburgh: 1979-:
82-3).
Listing NGR: SJ4041166674
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