Description

KIRBY HALL CHURCH LANE
SE 4460-4560
(east side),
Kirby Hall Estate
10/30 Carriage gates and gate
piers, pedestrian
15/3/66 gates, screen walls and
railings at New Lodge
(formerly listed as
Gateway at Kirby Hall)
GV II*
Entrance gates. C18 carriage gates and gate piers, flanked by C19
pedestrian gates and screen walls. For the Kirby Hall Estate, with C19
alterations by Sir Henry Meysey-Thompson. Limestone ashlar walls and gate
piers; wrought iron carriage gates and cast iron pedestrian gates and
railings. Carriage gates of remarkable quality with delicately wrought
design of coiled tendrils and rinceaux. Carriage gate piers of banded
rustication, square on plan, approximately 4 metres high on high bases.
Defaced carvings of triglyphs and rosettes on frieze beneath moulded
cornice. Caps support ball finials on voluted pedestals. Date 1874 added
to reverse of right hand pier, and monogram of HMMT to left. Pedestrian
gate piers, approximately 3 metres high, similar but less ornate, with
ball-and-pedestal finials. Quadrant walls, approximately .70 metre high
with moulded plinth and coping, carry spiral-tipped railings and urn-
finial standards. Terminal piers are square in section and have shallow
pyramidal caps over moulded cornices.

Listing NGR: SE4523160750

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17536554

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