Park Wall Between Main Gateway And St Augustines Convent (Convent Not Included) is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1972. Boundary wall.
Park Wall Between Main Gateway And St Augustines Convent (Convent Not Included)
- WRENN ID
- deep-lancet-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1972
- Type
- Boundary wall
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4166 GROSVENOR PARK 1932-1/6/131 (North side) 10/01/72 Park wall between main Gateway & St Augustine's Convent (convent not included) (Formerly Listed as: GROSVENOR PARK Boundary Wall round Grosvenor Park)
GV II
Part of boundary wall of Grosvenor Park, to Union Street, between Main gateway to park (qv) and St Augustine's Convent (not included), with gate piers. 1865-1867. By John Douglas at expense of 2nd Marquis of Westminster. For Chester City Council. Squared snecked sandstone rubble and granite. Plinth with replaced railings opposite lodge (qv); wall 2 metres high to lodge yard with oak boarded door on ornate hinges in stop-chamfered opening with lintel on brackets; replaced railings on weathered plinth as far as gateway opposite Bath Street; pair of granite piers diminishing to octagonal section, with twice weathered caps; the wall continues, with minor openings, to the curtilage of St Augustine's Convent. (Chester City Council and Committee: Park Committee Minutes: 1865-1867: PASSIM; Hubbard E: The Work of John Douglas: London: 1991-: 28; 46-48).
Listing NGR: SJ4112666312
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