Knights Hospitallers Gateway At Knights Gate

SP 10 SW QUENINGTON CHURCH ROAD (west side)

6/239 Knights Hospitallers Gateway at Knights Gate (formerly listed as Priory Gateway)

4.6.52

GV I

Gatehouse to former Preceptory of the Knights Hospitallers established in C12. C14, partly reconstructed and extended to north west in early C16 to form additional 2-storey wing. Rubble stone with stone slate roof. Square gatehouse and additional wing, 2 storeys. Street side has pointed arch doorway with chamfered jambs and irregular flush stone quoins and pointed hoodmould, with vertical battened door. Large flat carriage arch also with chamfered jambs and dripmould and vertical battened double doors. Single light above with plank shutters and small cusped niche to left with headless statuette. Chamber to right has 4-pane light, and cross on saddlestone on gable end. West side has square entrance with large timber lintel and faceted stone column with round base attached on left, with 2-light stone mullion and transom light over. Chamber has smaller 4-pane light with timber lintel and C20 entrance. Both upper chambers said to have quatrefoil- enriched roof trusses but interior not accessible at time of survey. (VCH, Gloucestershire, Vol.VII, 1981; David Verey, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)

Listing NGR: SP1481603972