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© Mr John Barlow LRPS
IoE Number:
218462
Location:
CITY GATE, COOK STREET
COVENTRY, COVENTRY, WEST MIDLANDS
Photographer:
Mr John Barlow LRPS
Date Photographed:
09 March 2001
Date listed:
05 February 1955
Date of last amendment:
05 February 1955
Grade
I
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5105 COOK STREET
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City Gate
SP 3379 SE 2/15 5.2.55
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I GV
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First quarter of C14, perhaps rebuilt 2nd half of C14. Work on the adjoining city
walls began 1352 or 1355. Licence to crenellate was granted 1363, to complete
the work 1385. Sandstone with 4 centred arch, side buttresses and C19 or modern
embattlements. 1 double light stone mullioned window with trefoil cusped arches.
Gargoyles. Only remaining functional gate in the city.
Scheduled Ancient, Monument.
Forms a group with Swanswell Gate and City Wall to north of Swanswall Gate,Hales Street.]