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Latitude: 56.0664 / 56°3'59"N
Longitude: -3.4616 / 3°27'41"W
OS Eastings: 309097
OS Northings: 686917
OS Grid: NT090869
Mapcode National: GBR 1Y.PVNR
Mapcode Global: WH5QR.SSS8
Plus Code: 9C8R3G8Q+H9
Entry Name: South East Gateway, Pittencrieff Park, Dunfermline
Listing Name: Pittencrieff Park, South East Gateway, West Nethertown Street
Listing Date: 10 March 2000
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 394323
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB46936
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200394323
Location: Dunfermline
County: Fife
Town: Dunfermline
Electoral Ward: Dunfermline Central
Traditional County: Fife
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Muirhead and Rutherford, 1928. Central double wrought-iron gates with flanking single pedestrian gates. Large pair of central sandstone ashlar gatepiers and smaller outer gatepiers attached to small section of coursed rockfaced sandstone wall. Classical design with rusticated central piers surmounted by truncated urns. Gatepiers have base courses; moulded panels to E and W sides; central ones have carved wreaths at head of panels; band courses below moulded cornices and bases to truncated urns; side ones have cornices below stepped coping, rounded at centre. Gates have decorative scrolled panels; flat panels with embossed swags at head of central gates. Flat coping to side walls.
Built as an entrance to Pittencrieff Park, which was opened to the public in 1903, following its purchase by Andrew Carnegie the previous year. The park is included in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes (see above). See separate List descriptions for park buildings, including East Gateway. See separate list descriptions for other park buildings.
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