St Marys Gate Adjoining Number 14 College Green

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SO8318NW COLLEGE GREEN 844-1/8/80 (West side) 23/01/52 St Mary's Gate adjoining No.14 College Green

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Formerly known as: College Gate COLLEGE GREEN. Gatehouse, now includes offices. Late C12, refronted and heightened in early C13; for the Benedictine Abbey of St Peter as the Great Gate to the Outer Court of the monastery, now part of College Green; altered in C18 and restored in late C19 by FS Waller for the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral. Ashlar, rubble, tiled roof, wrought-iron gates. PLAN: gate passage leads from St Mary's Square into north-west corner of College Green, passage covered by two bays of quadripatite vaulting; with a large chamber at first-floor level above the passage. EXTERIOR: two storeys with cross gabled fronts facing the street and the court; the outer front facing St Mary's Street has a large arch to the passage with recessed orders to the jambs, formerly with nook shafts, and at first-floor level an arcade of four bays with the two inner bays flanked by smaller bays; the inner bays framing windows with flat lintels; in the gable a recessed triangular panel within which are the jambs and arches of a three-bay blank arcade with the shafts removed. The inner front above the archway to the passage restored in late C19; similar to outer front. INTERIOR: not inspected. Scheduled Ancient Monument. (VCH: The City of Gloucester: Oxford: 1988-: 282; Welander D: The History, Art and Architecture of Gloucester Cathedral: Stroud, Gloucestershire: 1991-).

Listing NGR: SO8300818865