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Latitude: 52.2149 / 52°12'53"N
Longitude: -2.2208 / 2°13'14"W
OS Eastings: 385011
OS Northings: 257431
OS Grid: SO850574
Mapcode National: GBR 1FY.3CL
Mapcode Global: VH92M.GL9F
Plus Code: 9C4V6Q7H+XM
Entry Name: South Gatepier, Quadrant Wall, Railings and Pier at Entrance to Perdiswell Park
Listing Date: 22 May 1954
Last Amended: 27 June 2001
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1389773
English Heritage Legacy ID: 488724
ID on this website: 101389773
Location: Barbourne, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR3
County: Worcestershire
District: Worcester
Electoral Ward/Division: Claines
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Worcester
Traditional County: Worcestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Worcestershire
Church of England Parish: Claines
Church of England Diocese: Worcester
Tagged with: Architectural structure
WORCESTER
SO85NE DROITWICH ROAD
620-1/2/217 (East side)
22/05/54 South gatepier, quadrant
wall, railings and pier
at entrance to
Perdiswell Park
(Formerly Listed as:
PERDISWELL PARK
(East side)
Stable block of former
Perdiswell Hall. Gate
piers at drive entrance.
GV II
Formerly known as: Coach House.
Includes: South gatepier, quadrant wall, railings and pier at
entrance PERDISWELL PARK.
Gate pier, quadrant wall with railings and end pier. Gatepier
1788, with quadrant walls, pier and railings probably c1880;
urn renewed c1980s. Rusticated ashlar pier approximately 3.5
metres high with Coade stone panel to frieze and surmounting
urn. Frieze shows reclining female figure representing
'Agriculture' and is inscribed 'COADE ...' (otherwise worn).
Rough coursed stone uadrant walls approximately 1 metre high
with curved ashlar copings and cast-iron railings with
round-arched arcade and spearhead bars, extending for
approximately 12 metres to rough coursed stone end pier with
peaked cap approximately 2 metres high.
HISTORICAL NOTE: forms the entrance to the former Perdiswell
Hall (demolished 1956), and now to Perdiswell Park together
with North gate pier, quadrant wall, railings and pier (qv).
The North gate pier is dated 1788. The Stable Block and walled
garden of former Perdiswell Hall remain (qv).
Pevsner describes the Coade stone reliefs as 'beautiful'.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner: N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 335; NMR: Photographs).
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