Gateway And Flanking Walls To Hodnet Hall Approximately 18 Metres To South West Of Church Of Saint Luke is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1987. Gateway.
Gateway And Flanking Walls To Hodnet Hall Approximately 18 Metres To South West Of Church Of Saint Luke
- WRENN ID
- wild-bastion-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1987
- Type
- Gateway
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
HODNET C.P. CHURCH STREET SJ 6028-6128 13/47 Gateway and flanking walls - to Hodnet Hall approx. 18 metres to south-west of Church of Saint Luke
GV II
Gateway and flanking walls. Dated 1887, probably by Anthony Salvin. Grey sandstone ashlar. Neo-Jacobean style. East side: flanking buttresses with chamfered offsets and chamfered reveals, banded rustication above returned as voussoirs, and raised keystone with Ionic volutes and inscription: "ESPERANCE / EN DIEU / 1954" (earlier lettering just visible beneath:" ? / CORVOS / 1887". Frieze with raised rectangular panels, and open triangular pediment resting on brackets and with central globe finial in tympanum. Keystone at rear with carved family crest. Flanking walls of tooled ashlar with ramped chamfered copings and square end piers with moulded caps and globe finials. The gateway is similar to one dated 1631 and 1954 in Hodnet Park (q.v.). Hodnet was formerly the seat of the Vernons. The present building (not included on this list) dates from 1870. B.O.E., p. 151.
Listing NGR: SJ6121428572
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