King Edward's Gate - College Street, Gloucester

In this area is Gloucester Cathedral and nearby relevant buildings.

 

College Street - it leads to the cathedral from Westgate Street.

 

King Edward's Gate

 

It is a Grade II* listed building.

 

Kings Edwards Gate, Gloucester

 

GLOUCESTER

 

SO8318NW COLLEGE STREET

844-1/8/92 (North West side)

23/01/52 No.13

King Edward's Gate

(Formerly Listed as:

COLLEGE STREET

No.13)

 

GV II*

 

Formerly known as: Remains of Abbey Gate COLLEGE GREEN.

Gatehouse, then lodge or office, now house. Early C19 with

later C19 extension; incorporates substantial remains of the

former early C16 gatehouse, known as King Edward's Gatehouse.

All that remains of the gatehouse is the west flanking wall,

which now forms the front of the house. Gatehouse wall of

ashlar with some exposed stone and brick rubble corework;

later house of red brick, bituminous felt flat roof and tiled

roof, brick stack.

PLAN: a single cell block built against the retained wall on

the west side of the early C16 gatehouse, with an added gabled

wing on the west side of the block over an open carriage shed;

at the southern end of the gatehouse wall the decayed remains

of its south-west corner and at the north end an octagonal

stair turret; the plan of the excavated foundations of the

gatehouse indicated in the street paving.

EXTERIOR: two storeys; the ashlar west side wall of the former

gatehouse now the front of the house, on the face of its south

end the badly weathered remains of the moulded west jamb of

the former arched carriageway flanked to left by two badly

decayed moulded and canopied niches; at the bottom of the

upper niche an inserted stone block carved with arms.

The stair turret at the north end, faced in ashlar, has an

offset plinth with weathered capping and at high level a

moulded string course; in the north-east face of the turret a

two-light window below the string course and a similar window

above, both with chamfered jambs and mullions; in the centre

of the wall the entrance doorway to the house, c1800, in a

plain stone frame with pointed arch containing fanlight inset

with wrought-iron Gothic tracery above the transom.

The north front shows evidence of a former central infilled

doorway, with three semicircular stone steps to threshold, on

each side a sash, with glazing bars (3x4 panes); on the first

floor two large double sash windows in openings with

segmental-arched heads, one above the former doorway and one

above the open front of the carriage shed.

 

 

INTERIOR: on both floors early C19 features including

staircase with stick balusters and in the ground-floor front

room a fireplace with reeded architrave surround.

HISTORY: gatehouse built for Abbot Parker on the south side of

the Cathedral precinct opposite the south porch of the

Cathedral (qv), formerly the Benedictine Abbey of St Peter.

Built on the site of earlier gatehouse. The gatehouse

demolished in C17 to create a wider entrance to the precinct.

 

 

Listing NGR: SO8303118732

 

 

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Source: English Heritage

 

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