Survey Data
Reg No
11823020
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Original Use
Gates/railings/walls
In Use As
Gates/railings/walls
Date
1730 - 1770
Coordinates
278438, 184984
Date Recorded
03/02/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Gateway, c.1750, comprising pair of cut-stone piers with cut-stone capping having wrought iron double gates and rubble granite flanking boundary walls with pedestrian pass to left (north).
Appraisal
This gateway is an attractive feature of Church Lane and forms an integral component of the Saint James’s Church complex. The construction of the piers is an example of the high quality of stone masonry practised in the locality, while the gates are a good example of early surviving wrought iron work. The construction of the boundary wall is representative of the traditional method of constructing boundary walls and is an important survival – elsewhere, traditional walls have been replaced with unsympathetic modern versions. The use of locally-quarried rubble granite is a feature shared with further buildings in the locality of Castledermot.