The Northgate is a Grade I listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1955. A 1810 Archway. 1 related planning application.
The Northgate
- WRENN ID
- dim-chimney-crow
- 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)
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
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