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| Abbey Gate, Carlisle | ||
| Abbey Gate | ||
| Priory Gate | ||
| site name:- | Carlisle Cathedral | |
| Street:- | Abbey Street | |
| locality:- | Carlisle | |
| civil parish:- | Carlisle (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| locality type:- | gate | |
| coordinates:- | NY39815595 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3955 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY35 | |
| references:- | Listed Buildings 2010 |
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 BXH97.jpg From Abbey Street. (taken 17.9.2012)  BXI01.jpg (taken 17.9.2012) |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Abbey Gate |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "ABBEY GATE AND GATEHOUSE / / / CARLISLE / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / I / 386596 / NY3981255958" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Formerly known as: Abbey Street Lodge The Abbey." "Gate tower to St Mary's Priory and attached gatehouse. For Prior Slee, inscribed and dated 1528. Weathered red sandstone ashlar, some dressings of calciferous sandstone, on chamfered plinth, string courses and eaves cornice; clasping buttresses carried up on each angle as stone chimney stacks. Graduated greenslate roofs with coped gables. 2-storey, single-bay gate tower, with attached low 2-storey, 2-bay gatehouse at rear right. At the top of Abbey Street and was the main gate from that street into the Priory, now a gate into the Cathedral grounds. The Abbey Street facade has a large central rounded archway with triple chamfer; the vaulted arch has a further recessed round archway fitted with double gates and a left rounded-arch pedestrian gate. Over the arch is a 3-light Tudor window with hoodmould; gabled above. The rear is similar to the facade but with a Latin inscription on the arch and the window above without hood. The gatehouse projects with a gable and then a half gable and appears to be contemporary with the tower but sash windows have been inserted, some are perhaps in the original surrounds. From the roof crease on the left of the archway it appears that there was a corresponding gatehouse symmetrically placed on that side, which was demolished to make way for the Bishop's Library, nearby, in 1699 (or during the Civil War). For further details see Perriam, CWAAS,Trans.NS LXXXVII." "INTERIORS not inspected." "Included in this listing is the fragment of wall which extends over Dean Tait's Lane to join with No.48 Abbey Street and now cut by a C19 archway; this could be the remains of an earlier gate tower on this site, or an adjoining Priory building." "Cumb. & West. Antiquarian &Archaeological Soc., New Series: Perriam DR: LXXXVII: The Demolition of the Priory of St Mary: P.142-4" |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Thurnam 1835 placename:- Abbey Gate |
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| source data:- | Print, uncoloured lithograph, The Abbey Gate, Carlisle, Cumberland, drawn by M E Nutter,
lithographed by Paul Gauci, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, Cumberland, by
Ackermann and Co, by Hodgson, Boys, and Graves, and by Charles Tilt, London, 1835. click to enlargeTHM109.jpg Included in Carlisle in the Olden Time. printed at bottom:- "Drawn by M. E. Nutter. / Paul Gauci lith. / THE ABBEY GATE. / INSIDE. / Carlisle, Published by Charles Thurnam. / London, Ackermann & Co.- Hodgson, Boys, and Graves &Charles Tilt." item:- Dove Cottage : 2008.123.9 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old drawing:- placename:- Abbey Gate |
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| source data:- | Drawing, Abbey Gate, Abbey Street, Carlisle, Cumberland, by Thomas Bushby, 1895. click to enlargePR1195.jpg View of Abbey Gate with entrance to Abbey Street on right. Several figures pass along street or beneath archway. inscribed &dated at bottom left:- "Abbey Gate, Carlisle 1895." signed at bottom centre:- "T. Bushby" item:- Tullie House Museum : 1978.108.15 Image © Tullie House Museum |
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| evidence:- | old painting:- placename:- Abbey Gate |
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| source data:- | Painting, watercolour, The Abbey Gate, Carlisle, Cumberland, by Robert Carlyle snr,
1791. click to enlargePR0917.jpg Summertime; two figures stand conversing in the roadway outside Abbey Gate. One of a set of 11 original drawings for proposed aquatints The Antiquities of the City of Carlisle, 1791. The work was adapted by Matthew Ellis Nutter, being executed as one of a series of 17 works by Carlyle and published by Thurnam as Carlisle in the Olden Time, 1835. See CALMG:1978.108.74.1 inscribed at bottom centre:- "The ABBEY GATE, CARLISLE." item:- Tullie House Museum : 1935.80.11 Image © Tullie House Museum |
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 BXH99.jpg Inscription. (taken 17.9.2012)  BXH98.jpg From The Abbey. (taken 17.9.2012) |
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| notes:- |
gateway and walls |
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| Perriam, D R &Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS::
ISBN 1 873124 23 6; pland and illustration |
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