sps1955's photos with the keyword: Bridge Gate

The remaining fragment of Bridge Gate seen from the bridge over the ring road. On the left is the side elevation of St Helen's House in King Street, built 1766-7 for Alderman John Gisborne to the designs of Joseph Pickford [Maxwell Craven in Georgian Group Journal , XVII (2009), p.78; list description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1228285 ]. To the right, 11 Bridge Gate (occupied by St Mary's Convent since 1862) is partly C19 with a C18 re-fronting of earlier (perhaps late C16) buildings on the right: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1215807 .

From E (liturgical S). Roman Catholic parish church built at the expense of the earl of Shrewsbury and designed by A. W. Pugin, 1838. This is as good a photograph as I could manage of the nave and aisles, which are rather more austerely treated than the tower , which faced Bridge Gate. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1215808 .

From S (liturgical W). Roman Catholic parish church built at the expense of the earl of Shrewsbury and designed by A. W. Pugin, 1838. List description: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1215808 . The list description refers to a "tall slender spire", but, although this was proposed, it was never built, according to The buildings of England: Derbyshire (corrected reprint of 2nd edn., 1979), p.171. The bridge in the foreground dates from 2007 and crosses the ring road; I suppose that the opening up of this view of St Mary's may have been one of the ring road's few benefits, from a townscape point of view.