More information : (SP33537945) Cook Street Gate [NR].(1)
Cook Street Gate. Erected ca.1355. This is the only gate still spanning a main road. See GP.(2-5)
Scheduled: West Midlands No.21.(6)
Cook Street Gate was probably known by that name in 1410-11. It is square in plan and projects beyond the line of the walls. The room above the gateway has doors either side communicating with the wall walkways. Grooves for a portcullis are visible in the jambs of the outer arch. The gate was presented to the city by Col. Wyley in 1913 and restored in 1918. The stone vault above the gateway is missing and the parapets have been renewed.(8)
Cook Street City Gate. First quarter of the C14th, perhaps rebuilt in the second half of the C14th. Work on the adjoining city walls began in 1352 or 1355. It is the only remaining functional gate in the city. Grade I.(9)
(Forms part of Coventry City Walls, SP37NW48) |