Woodstock Gate is a Grade I listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1957. A Georgian Arcade.
Woodstock Gate
- WRENN ID
- distant-mortar-moss
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1957
- Type
- Arcade
- Period
- Georgian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BLENHEIM SP4416NW 9/40 Woodstock Gate 27/08/57 (Formerly listed as Triumphal Arch) GV I Triumphal arch. 1723, by Nicholas Hawksmoor. Limestone ashlar. Keyed semi-circular archway flanked by 2 orders of Corinthian columns set on panelled plinth and supporting entablature with inscription set on narrow attic. Rusticated flanking walls, terminated by drum piers, has C18 panelled doors set in semi-circular arched doorways with lions' heads carved on keystones. The gateway was built to provide a more convenient entrance for visitors from Woodstock. The flanking doors were made before 1710 for the garden east of the palace and moved here in 1773. The builders were Peisley and Townesend. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p474; National Monuments Record; K. Downes: Hawksmoor: 1959, pp204-5, 282; D. Green: Blenheim Palace: 1951, pp256, 273; Blenheim Park is included in the HBMC Register of Parks and Gardens at Grade I)
Listing NGR: SP4426416716
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