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New Gate (Site Of)
Hob Uid: 869482
Location : Coventry Non Civil Parish
Grid Ref : SP3393078590
Summary : New Gate, 1355-1762.
More information : (SP33537859) New Gate (Site of) [NR].(1) New Gate, (site). Erected ca.1355, demolished in 1762.(2) Depicted.(3) New Gate. Work is said to have been started on the gate in 1355, and certainly at the latest by 1367. It lay on the main road to London at the bottom of Much Park Street. It appears to have been a rectangular structure pierced by a single arch, embattled, and surmounted in Bradford's time by a single turret or cupola, and later still by twin gables. It was demolished in 1762.(4,5) (Forms part of Coventry City walls, SP37NW48.)

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Source details : OS 2500 1961.
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Source details : Newell C 1924. Coventry City Walls and Gates.
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Source details : Map of Coventry 1610. (Speed J)
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Source details : VCH Warwickshire 8 1969 22,23.
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Source Number : 5
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Source details : Plan of Coventry, 1748-9. (Bradford S)
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Medieval
Display Date : Medieval
Monument End Date : 1540
Monument Start Date : 1066
Monument Type : Gate
Evidence : Documentary Evidence

Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
Display Date : Post Medieval
Monument End Date : 1901
Monument Start Date : 1540
Monument Type : Gate
Evidence : Documentary Evidence

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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SP 37 NW 58
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