Survey Data
Reg No
41402305
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Saint John's Church (Ematris) originally Kilcrow Church (Ematris)
Original Use
Gates/railings/walls
In Use As
Gates/railings/walls
Date
1815 - 1820
Coordinates
261070, 317582
Date Recorded
17/04/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Entrance gates to Church of Ireland churchyard, dated 1819. Comprising double-leaf wrought and cast-iron vehicular gate with pointed finials, with mild steel repairs, flanked by square-plan cut limestone piers, having carved cornices and plinths, and scroll-topped chamfered jamb to one side. Piers flanked by rendered boundary walls with cut-stone capping. Estate railings to south and west of graveyard, of wrought-iron with mild steel repairs.
Appraisal
The simple form of the gate piers is enhanced by carved scrolls on one side, which indicate the skill and craftsmanship of nineteenth-century stonemasons. Like many demesne structures, this site displays a high degree of conscious design, and forms part of an interesting group with the church, the coach house, and the gates at the roadside, which in turn forms part of the larger group of Dawson Grove demesne structures. The wrought-iron railings to the boundary of the graveyard have been sensitively restored, retaining a patina of age.