The Abbey Gatehouse is a Grade I listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1952. A C13 (explicit) Gatehouse.
The Abbey Gatehouse
- WRENN ID
- winding-glass-vetch
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1952
- Type
- Gatehouse
- Period
- C13 (explicit)
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TQ 97 SE 13/167 5282
HIGH STREET (North Side) Minster-on-Sea, Sheerness The Abbey Gatehouse
14.5.52.
GV I
This gatehouse and the Abbey Church are the only remaining portions of Minster Abbey. C13. 3 storeys. 2 windows facing south, 1 window facing east. Stone and flints. Stringcourses. Castellated parapet of chequer work of stone and knapped flints. Modern casement windows, those on the south front on the 2nd floor being placed in mediaeval openings with 4-centred heads. 1 cinquefoil- headed lancet on the 2nd floor of the east front. Pointed carriage archway in the south-west corner, pointed pedestrian arch to the east of it. 3 cinquefoil- headed lancet windows on the north front with a chimney corbelled out between 2 of them on the 2nd floor. Pointed carriage archway on this side as wide as both the carriage and pedestrian archways of the south front together. Square projection in the north-east corner with pointed lancet windows.
Listing NGR: TQ9555272937
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