Screen Wall And Garden Walls To South And East Of Auckland Castle

The screen wall and garden walls to the south and east of Auckland Castle were built around 1795 by architect James Wyatt for Bishop Shute Barrington. This structure features an ashlar screen and a rubble garden wall with ashlar coping, complemented by wrought-iron gates and railings in the Gothick style. The main screen wall runs along the south side of the castle garden and is entirely battlemented. It is marked by tall octagonal turrets with arrow slits and corbelled battlements at the end bays and central gateway. The gateway has canted walls with wide pointed arches flanking a high pointed entrance arch, above which are painted panels displaying the arms of the Diocese on the left and those of Bishop Barrington on the right. Long walls on either side of the gateway feature eight wide pointed arches on the left and seven on the right, filled with plain wrought-iron railings that have pointed heads, similar to the side arches of the entrance. The gates are designed in the same style and have quadrant bracing on the upper panels. To the left of the screen, the garden wall is made of coursed squared stone with battlemented ashlar coping, and it includes a service entrance with rectangular gate piers; the gates here match those at the center of the screen. To the right, the coursed squared stone wall continues around the west and north sides of the garden, featuring battlemented ashlar parapets. At both the east and west ends of the north wall, pointed arches contain six-panel doors with shaped top panels, with the west door returning to join the wall below the Church of St Peter.