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The Magazine Gateway (aka The Magazine and also called Newarke Gateway) is a Grade I listed building in Leicester. Now a solitary landmark alongside Leicester ringroad, it was originally the main gateway of a walled enclosure built around 1400, giving access to the religious precinct of The Newarke. The vaulted archway was open to traffic until ...
Gateway Sixth Form College is a sixth form college in Hamilton, Leicester, England. The college used to be housed in the city centre of Leicester, adjacent to the main campus of De Montfort University and located by other buildings of academic interests such as the Daniel Lambert Museum, Newarke House, Leicester Castle and Castle Gardens.
The Church of the Annunciation of Our Lady of the Newarke in Leicester, was a collegiate church founded by Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster, in 1353. [1] The name "Newarke" is a translation of the Latin "novum opus" i.e. "new work" and was used to distinguish the church from the older collegiate church of Leicester Castle, the Church of St Mary de Castro. [2]
Leicester Castle lay on the south-western corner of the walls, and the Newarke was a separate walled area nearby. [citation needed] The Newarke Gateway (now known as the Magazine) is the only medieval gateway remaining. [citation needed] A small section of the town wall can be seen in the churchyard of St Mary de Castro.
The museum is close to the 15th century Magazine Gateway and within the precincts of the medieval 'Newarke', the 'New Work' of Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster. The museum stands in the middle of the De Montfort University campus.
English: More accurately called The Newarke Gateway, this was the grand entrance to the Newarke ("new work"), the religious and charitable institution founded by Henry, 3rd Earl of Leicester and Lancaster to the south of Leicester Castle and enlarged by his son, Henry of Grosmont, First Duke of Lancaster. (Part of De Montfort University, which ...
1km 0.6miles War Memorial 14 Magazine Gateway 13 St Nicholas' 12 Jewry Wall 11 St Margaret's 10 City Rooms 9 Guildhall 8 All Saints 7 St Mary de Castro 6 Turret Gateway 5 Castle 4 Cavendish House 3 Abbot Penny's Wall 2 Abbey Ruins 1 Grade I listed buildings in Leicester Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX ...
The plaque of the wall reads, "This masonry is all that remains of the Collegiate Church of the Annunciation of our Lady of the Newarke at Leicester, which was founded in 1354 by Henry Plantagenet, first Duke of Lancaster and fourth Lancastrian Earl of Leicester.The masonry was removed from its site during the extension of the colleges of Art and Technology and was replaced in its original ...