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13/07/2002 by Craig
Priory Gates
I've read articles in the past about the disappearance of the iron gates that once stood at the entrance to the Priory In Ware.
Does anyone else recall this at all? It'll be interesting to investigate the whereabouts of them.
Thoughts here please.
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Reply ID 1208
03/05/2003 by bolly
i think they would have been wooden, and were taken down in the 50s by ware urban district vandals, sorry i mean council, they were probably cast aside, disregarded and used as firewood, they certainly looked formidable with those huge spikes on the top! i can't think of any reason why they should have been taken down!!!!they might of been very useful today, very difficult to climb over after dusk!
Reply ID 1209
03/05/2003 by Andy B
Does anyone have a picture of them?
Reply ID 1219
03/05/2003 by Craig
There is a photograph of them on page 102 of Ware's Past in Pictures.
I don't think it'll reproduce very well for online publication. Has anyone else got any pictures of the gates in their photo album?
Reply ID 1224
03/05/2003 by Andrew
I haven't found the gates from Ware Priory, but I have found something else wooden from Ware in an unlikely place. It was a wooden pipe from Chadwell Springs and I saw it in Chirk Castle in North Wales yesterday. Chirk Castle (which is more of a stately home than a castle) was the home of the Myddleton family. Sir Hugh Myddleton was responsible for the creation of the New River so when there was renovation work at Chadwell Spring in the late nineteenth century one of the pipes was removed to Chirk Castle.
Reply ID 1225
03/05/2003 by ajw
Craig, You are right there were Iron Gates on the entrance to the Priory, And they were removed quite recently about 2 to 3yrs ago.
But the large Wooden Gates were taken down sometime in the 50s era,
The Building what is now the Ware Musseum was behind the Gates and a Wall about 15ft high.
ajw
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