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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 76 NW 451 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | CHERTSEY'S GATE |
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Summary
Grade I listed building. Main construction periods 1333 to 1366
Summary from record TQ 76 NW 149 :
Mid 14th century gateway. Also known as College Gate and Cemetery Gate.
Images
| Grid Reference: | TQ 74293 68603 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ76NW |
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| Parish: | ROCHESTER & CHATHAM, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- SITE (Medieval - 1333 AD to 1366 AD)
- GATE (GATE, Medieval to Modern - 1334 AD? to 2050 AD (between))
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (I) 1086494: CHERTSEY'S GATE |
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Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
ROCHESTER HIGH STREET TQ 7468 NW 7/60 Chertsey's Gate (Also known as 24.10.50 College Gate and Cemetery Gate) GV I Gateway giving access to Cathedral outer Precinct and lay cemetery from High Street. Probably mid C14 (c.1334 when precinct wall was erected). Lower part of rubble ragstone (with flint banding to front and rear); timber-framed above with renewed weatherboarding. 2 storeys and attic. Kent tiled gable- end roof. To front and rear a wide 4-centred moulded arch with hoodmould, the moulding cut back to ease vehicular access; upper rooms reached by polygonal stair turret to SW. Blocked low arches to both side walls. Unchamfered beam to simple timber ceiling over passage. To front, 1st and attic floors jettied; 2 12-pane unhorned sash window to 1st floor, 2-light casement window to gable wall. Rear with 1st floor jetty only; 16-pane hornless sash window to 1st floor, 2-light casement above. Tiny casement window to Boley Hill elevation. Interior of upper floors not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ7429368603
Description from record TQ 76 NW 149 :
[TQ 74296860] Gate [AT] (1)
HIGH STREET Chertsey's Gate (also known as College Gate and Cemetery Gate). Gateway giving access to cathedral outer precinct and lay cemetery from High Street. Probably mid C14 (c.1334 when precinct wall was erected). Lower part is rubble ragstone; timber framed above with weatherboarding. [Full architectural description] LISTED GRADE I [2].
Additional architectural reference. (a) [3].
See also No.60 High Street, Rochester (TQ 76 NW 75).
<1> OS 1:2500 1970 (OS Card Reference). SKE48212.
<2> DOE(HHR)City of Rochester upon Medway Kent, 2nd Dec 1991 34 (OS Card Reference). SKE41272.
<3> Newman J(1980)The Buildings of England:West Kent and the Weald 485-486 (OS Card Reference). SKE47542.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: OS 1:2500 1970. |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: DOE(HHR)City of Rochester upon Medway Kent, 2nd Dec 1991 34. |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: Newman J(1980)The Buildings of England:West Kent and the Weald 485-486. |
