The Watergate is a Grade I listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1955. Archway. 4 related planning applications.
The Watergate
- WRENN ID
- plain-bailey-falcon
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1955
- Type
- Archway
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066SW WATERGATE STREET AND ROW 595-1/3/404 The Watergate 28/07/55 (Formerly Listed as: The Watergate)
GV I
Archway through City Wall on site of medieval gate. 1788-90. By Joseph Turner. For Chester City Council who had bought the sergeantry of the gate from the Earl of Derby in 1778. Red sandstone ashlar. The basket arch has a ring of short rusticated voussoirs; the wings are rusticated below simple, slightly projecting imposts; turned stone balusters to parapets of the wall walk, with pedimented central panel, an intermediate panel to each side and a parapet above each wing finished with a panelled abutment. A postern south of the main arch has a brick barrel vault. The drinking fountain, now dry, fixed to the north abutment is dated 1857. (Bartholomew City Guides: Harris B: Chester: Edinburgh: 1979-: 97-98; Clerk to Chester City Corporation Assembly: Assembly Book: 1788-1790: AB5 F.F.11 & 22).
Listing NGR: SJ4013766184
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