Malpas Hill Gateway

MALTBY SANDBECK PARK SK59SE (Malpas Hill) 4/71 Malpas Hill Gateway 13.11.59 6V II* Estate entrance gateway. c1760. By James Paine for the Earl of Scarbrough. Ashlar magnesian limestone, wrought-iron gates. Triumphal-arched carriage entrance flanked by side gates and end piers; quadrant wing walls with intermediate and end piers. Gateway: plinth, band-rusticated piers. Central arch with fluted impost band, archivolt and coffered soffit; festooned paterae in spandrels beneath dentilled pediment. Impost band continues as cornice with blocking course over recessed panels with side gates, each having its own plain impost and archivolt, and links to end piers with frieze blocks having sunken panels with paterae and cornices with flattened-dome copings. Gates: double central gates with square bars, 3 low rails with scrolls and 2 upper rails, the lower with scrolls and finials, the upper with cresting of spiral twists and anthemion devices; single side gates in same style but without uppermost rail. Quadrant walls: each has 3 rusticated intermediate piers linked by band beneath copings; square, rusticated end piers with fluted cornices and flattened-dome copings (right end pier collapsing at time of resurvey).

Listing NGR: SK5885990280