Main Gateway, To Grosvenor Park Road, And Yard Gate Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1972. Gateway.

Main Gateway, To Grosvenor Park Road, And Yard Gate Piers

WRENN ID
unlit-cornice-owl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1972
Type
Gateway
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SJ4166 1932-1/6/130 10/01/72

CHESTER CITY (EM) GROSVENOR PARK (North side)

Main gateway, to Grosvenor Park Road, and yard gate piers

(Formerly Listed as: GROSVENOR PARK Boundary Wall around Grosvenor Park)

II

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Screen, end-piers and gate piers to main park entrance. 1865-67. By John Douglas at expense of second Marquis of Westminster. For Chester City Council. Granite. Quadrant plinths to side-screens in "crazy paving" rubble; square end-piers, side-piers to pedestrian gates flanking carriage-entrance gate piers. The main piers have ornate moulded octagonal finials, the smaller piers are square, diminishing to octagonal section beneath bluntly-pointed caps. Probably original cast-iron piers and gate to maintenance yard immediately left of main gateway. (Chester City Council and Committee: Park Committee Minutes: 1865-1867: PASSIM; Hubbard E: The Work of John Douglas: London: 1991-: 46-48).

Listing NGR: SJ 41184 66354

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