Garden Wall, Gates And Adjoining Walls To St Marys Presbytery

The garden wall, gates, and adjoining walls to St Mary's Presbytery in Grimsby were built in the 1880s, likely designed by the architects Hadfield and Son of Sheffield, who also designed St Mary's Church and the Presbytery. The walls enclosing the front garden of the Presbytery are made of orange and yellow brick with ashlar dressings, complemented by cast-iron railings and wrought-iron gates.

The south gateway features piers with tall brick bases, chamfered ashlar shafts, and an upper section that includes a moulded ashlar band, a frieze with contrasting brick bands, and a low pyramidal ashlar cap. The wrought-iron gate has alternating plain and wavy dog bars with scrollwork panels above. Each side of the gateway has a dwarf wall with banded brickwork and ashlar coping, topped with arcaded railings supported by barley-twist columns and finials above a single top rail.

To the right, there is a 20th-century wooden fence with a similar original wrought-iron gate. The structure includes two sections of taller coped wall that step downhill on either side, enclosing the churchyard to the west and the rear garden of the Presbytery and St Mary's School grounds to the east. These walls feature bands of contrasting orange and yellow brickwork and buttresses with single offsets. This garden wall and gates are included for their group value as part of a significant collection of Victorian and Edwardian educational and religious buildings established on land provided by the Heneage Estate.