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© Mr Roy Finch LRPS
IoE Number:
183537
Location:
NORTH WEST GATEWAY (FORMERLY INCLUDED AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF WHALLEY ABBEY),
WHALLEY, RIBBLE VALLEY, LANCASHIRE
Photographer:
Mr Roy Finch LRPS
Date Photographed:
27 January 2001
Date listed:
13 February 1967
Date of last amendment:
13 February 1967
Grade
I
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WHALLEY
SD 73 NW
2/52 North-West Gateway(formerly included as
13-2-1967 an integral part of Whalley Abbey)
GV I
Gateway to Whalley Abbey (q.v.), early C14. Sandstone rubble with upper
storey now roofless. 2 storeys. East and west walls each have outer
buttresses with offsets and a pointed arch chamfered in 2 orders springing
from responds which have capitals and an inner order with 2 quarter-round
mouldings and a fillet. Inside, the passage between the archways is
rib-vaulted in 8 bays. Between the 5th and 6th bays from the west is an
intermediate wall with large and small entrances, the former with
segmental arch, the latter with a pointed one. In the north wall are 2
doorways with pointed heads, one blocked. In the south wall there is a
similar blocked doorway. The upper storey has 3 3-light windows on both
the north and south sides. Scheduled Ancient Monument.