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Latitude: 52.4963 / 52°29'46"N
Longitude: -1.9486 / 1°56'54"W
OS Eastings: 403587
OS Northings: 288708
OS Grid: SP035887
Mapcode National: GBR 5N3.M1
Mapcode Global: VH9YW.5JQ6
Plus Code: 9C4WF3W2+GH
Entry Name: Gateway and Gates Approximately 50 Metres West of Canteen at Soho Foundry
Listing Date: 30 March 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1077142
English Heritage Legacy ID: 219288
ID on this website: 101077142
Location: Black Patch, Sandwell, West Midlands, B66
County: Sandwell
Electoral Ward/Division: Soho and Victoria
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Smethwick
Traditional County: Staffordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Midlands
Church of England Parish: Smethwick The Resurrection
Church of England Diocese: Birmingham
Tagged with: Gate
SANDWELL MB FOUNDRY LANE (off)
SP 08 NW
Smethwick
9/78 Gateway and gate
approximately 50 metres
30.3.87 west of canteen at
Soho Foundry
II
Gateway and gate. 1837, moved to present position in C20. Cast iron with
surround of sandstone and brick. Gate has flat top and some attached stylised
floral decoration and is set within an ovolo-moulded sandstone surround with
round arch. The keystone is inscribed: "AD 1837". Within the tympanum of the
arch is a cast iron figure of an elephant. A C20 inscription beside the gateway
reads: "This cast iron gate and arch were brought here from the residence of
James Watt, Heathfield Hall, Handsworth, built 1790 demolished 1925". Soho
Foundry is on the site of the foundry established in 1796 by Boulton, Watt and
Sons for the manufacture of steam engine parts.
Listing NGR: SP0358788708
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