Description

SX 45 SW MAKER-WITH-RAME MOUNT EDGCUMBE COUNTRY PARK

7/215 Gate Piers, Gates and Entrance
screen at Lower Lodge
23.1.68
GV II

Gate piers, gates and railings. Late C17/early C18 and C20. Granite; cast and
wrought iron. Long stretch of railings on a dwarf wall forming a screen at the
entrance to Mount Edgcumbe Park. Pier at each end of railings, gates to right and
terminal pier to right: of gates with small foot gate to end right.
The dwarf wall carries spear head railings; to left a large rusticated granite pier
of square plan on moulded plinth with cornice, cap and necking surmounted by ball
finial. To the left a buttress with large moulded granite volute. Similar pier to
right of carriage gates, pier to left of gates a C20 copy in brown granite without
buttress. Double iron carriage gates; small foot gate adjoins Lower Lodge (q.v.).
All the ironwork appears to be of C20.
The entrance to Mount Edgcumbe Park from Plymouth via the Cremyll ferry. Piers in
similar style to the Triumphal Arch at Higher Lodge (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SX4538753330

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26433396

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)