Dole gate
Category
Wooden objects
Date
Unknown
Materials
Metal, Oak
Measurements
660 x 850 mm
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Coughton Court, Warwickshire
On show at
Coughton Court, Warwickshire, Midlands, National Trust
NT 135289
Summary
An oak dole gate of the Convent of Denny of which Elizabeth Throckmorton was the last abbess in 1559, the panel fitted with two doors with inscriptions. 16th century.
Full description
An oak dole gate of the Convent of Denny of which Elizabeth Throckmorton was the last abbess in 1559, the panel fitted with two doors with inscriptions. 16th century. A label pasted to the front of the dole gate reads as follows: 'The carved piece of oak annexed to this was given to me by Miss Hamper[?] of Kings Heath near Birmingham, who procured it from the Revd Mr Burrows of Ombersley who found it at a cottage in that neighbourhood about the year 1830. In[?] a description of it [...] a letter from Dr Pattington[?] of Bewdley inserted in Dugdale's Warwickshire in my possession page 500[?]. Charles Throckmorton, Coughton Court, January 1891[?]'
Provenance
Purchased by National Trust in 1992/93 through private treaty sale with NHMF aid