Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Northgate at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7059427

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Care and Repair
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)