Listed Building record MDO44032 - Stage Gate, Charborough Park

Stag Gate, Charborough Park, built circa 1841-2 consists of a single brick archway with stone dressings surmounted by the free-standing figure of a stag. <2>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 92529936) Stag Gate (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 171 (Monograph). SDO148.

‘(3) Charborough House … Stag Gate (Plate 59), in Sturminster Marshall parish, nearly 1 m. due N. of the house, consists of a great archway, simpler than the foregoing and of greater refinement though of the same period. It is of brickwork, in Flemish bond with blue headers, with stone dressings; the design shows restraint and elegance. The lofty round-headed arch and responds abut colossal square piers, the moulded stone arch-imposts returning round the last. The arch key-block is also of stone. At the wall-head are oversailing courses of brickwork in emulation of a crowning cornice, a blocking-course and a plain podium for the naturalistic freestanding figure of a stag.’

<3> Historic England, Historic England Archive, 2K/07825 (Index). SDO14738.

CHARBOROUGH PARK 5 LEGGED STAG

<4> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BF110930 (Index). SDO14738.

England's Landscapes

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457352 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 8 2023 3:32PM