City Gate is a Grade I listed building in the Coventry local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1955. A Medieval Gate.

City Gate

WRENN ID
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Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Coventry
Country
England
Date first listed
5 February 1955
Type
Gate
Period
Medieval
Source
Historic England listing

Description

5105

COOK STREET

City Gate

SP 3379 SE 2/15

5.2.55

I

GV

First quarter of C14, perhaps rebuilt second half of C14. Work on the adjoining city walls began 1352 or 1355. Licence to crenellate was granted 1363, to complete the work 1385. Sandstone with four centred arch, side buttresses and C19 or modern embattlements. One double light stone mullioned window with trefoil cusped arches. Gargoyles.

Only remaining functional gate in the city.

Forms a group with Swanswell Gate and City Wall to north of Swanswall Gate, Hales Street.

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22 August 2019.

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