Boundary Wall, Railings And Entrance Gateways Enclosing Holy Trinity Church, School And Vicarage

The boundary wall, railings, and entrance gateways enclose Holy Trinity Church, the adjacent school, and the vicarage, constructed between 1876 and 1878 by Henry and Medland Taylor. The boundary is comprised of brick and masonry walling, piers, metal railings, and entrance gateways with gates, representing a unified design that differentiates the status of each building.

The west side (Portland Street) features a three-bay wall with an ashlar plinth and coping, incorporating a drinking fountain with a projecting bowl. Six bays of railings are punctuated by copied piers, linking with angled entrance gateways to the churchyard in the north-west and south-west corners. These gateways have stepped gables with an open niche above a pointed archway flanked by abutment walls, and decorative double iron gates, the south-west gate topped with a double triangle finial. A post box is set into the south abutment wall.

The south side (Dean Street) exhibits four bays of plain railings, followed by a masonry section, then gabled gate posts leading to the organ chamber entrance. Decorated iron double gates provide access, followed by more railings and a solid section. Further railings lead to stepped, gabled gate piers marking the vicarage entrance, adorned with blind tracery motifs on the pier faces, with low decorative iron gates. Subsequent sections include a solid wall with gabled pilaster piers and decorative railings, eventually connecting to the east side (Bentinck Street).

On the east side, three bays of railings between masonry piers, each railing bay divided into three sections by strainer posts with double triangle finials, complete the vicarage enclosure. The school side entrance has double iron gates and decorative railings. A solid masonry corner returns the wall to the north side (Kenyon Street). Decorative railings and an entrance bay with double gates are flanked by plain railings and piers. Further decorative and plain railings enclose the schoolyard, reverting to a plain pattern before terminating at a terminal pier. Then, two bays of plain railings lead to a solid bay with entrance piers for the vestry gateway, now with plain railings, followed by four final bays of railings connecting to the return wall of the north-west corner gateway to the churchyard.