Lion Gate To Ince Blundell Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1968. Entrance archway.
Lion Gate To Ince Blundell Hall
- WRENN ID
- lone-chapel-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1968
- Type
- Entrance archway
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
6/63 11.10.68
INCE BLUNDELL MOOR LANE SD 30 SW (north-east side)Lion gate to Ince Blundell Hall
GII Entrance archway with flanking pedestrian entrances.1770-76,with mid C19 addition.Central round-arched entrance with impost continued as cornice band; archivolt and keystone.Flanking Doric columns and entablature with two bucrania and rosettes to metopes.Broken pediment has central cartouche bearing Weld-Blundell arms supporting urn with rams' heads and swags,and with flanking festoons.Cartouche and urn added after 1847.Pedestrian entrances have rusticated surrounds and flat arches supporting bases with swags and rosettes and,to the left entrance,a lioness,and a lion to the right.Entrances have mid C19 cast iron gates,paired to central entrance.Set in brick estate wall with stone coping.Design copied from painting C.1690 by Sebastiano Ricci,"The Marriage of Bacchus and Ariadne"at one time in the hall.
Listing NGR: SD3297902123
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