West Gates To St Boniface'S Churchyard

Three pairs of gates and piers, likely dating from the early 19th century but reconstructed around 1919 as a World War I memorial. The arrangement consists of a pair of tall sandstone ashlar piers that support the main gates, flanked by wicket gates and lower piers. The piers have ogee-moulded plinths. The main gate piers are recessed on their west faces to accommodate bronze war memorial name plates bearing the inscriptions "LIVE THOU FOR ENGLAND" and "THESE FOR ENGLAND DIED." These plates are surmounted by oak, lead, and acorn motifs, with the dates 1914, 1939, and 1919, and 1945 displayed above and below the names of those who died. The pier caps have ogee cornices and ball finials, and they support an overthrow of square rods with a tapering hexagonal lamp at the center. The lower piers have scotia-moulded caps with four-way weathered tops. The oak gates are divided into square panels by horizontal and vertical timbers, and the upper panels of the main gates feature cross bracing.