Description

NZ 2465 SW NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE QUEEN VICTORIA RAD
(West side)
1833/13/10111
Gates, lodges and railings at
Royal Victoria Infirmary

GV II

Alternatively known as: Gates and Railings at Royal Victoria Infirmary, RICHARDSON ROAD
Lodge, gates and railings. 1900-05 with minor C20 alterations. Red brick with ashlar dressings slate roofs and iron railings and gates. Designed by W L Newcombe and Percy Adams.
South lodge has square cross plan, single storey with ashlar plinth and moulded ashlar eaves band cornice and parapet. Hipped slate roof with central brick and ashlar stack. East and west fronts have central pilaster porticoes with 3 sash windows. Main north front has full 4 columned portico.
Iron pedestrian gate links lodge to square gate pier.
Linked to this lodge is iron gate and brick gate pier.
Attached railings stretch along Queen Victoria Street with a further set of gates. The railings continue along Richardson Road and also along the passage to the north of the hospital site. These railings are plain spearhead iron railings set on low brick walling with chamfered ashlar coping, the regularly spaced piers are made up of 4 thick iron capped with ornate domed laterns.

Listing NGR: NZ2451764880

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659880

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)