St Marys Gate is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1949. A Medieval Gate.
St Marys Gate
- WRENN ID
- dusted-cinder-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1949
- Type
- Gate
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TQ 0107 2/1A
St Mary's Gate
26.3.49.
II Medieval. Rebuilt in early or mid-C19. (Watercolour of 1780 [Sussex Archaeological Society], and print of 1792, signed "TS" [NMR] show it before rebuilding, the side bays intact, but the arch collapsed). Former town gate (becoming redundant on diversion of London Road: see Town Gate, High Street, or Town Hall, Maltravers Street, qv). Dressed and knapped flint, with Pulborough stone dressings. 3 storeys. Stringcourse at eaves level, and crenellated parapet. 3 bays, central bay flanked by buttresses, which take machicolated 2nd storey. Flanking bays have rectangular windows with roll-moulded surrounds on ground and 1st floors, pointed lancets with roll-moulding surrounds on 2nd floor. Central bay has 1 4-centred arch with chamfered and moulded embrasures through ground and 1st storeys, and 3 slits on 2nd storey.
Listing NGR: TQ0154307312
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