Gate piers, gates, railings and steps, Ilkley Memorial Gardens

Memorial garden gate piers, gates, railings and steps of 1922, by John James Joass. Sandstone and wrought ironwork

PLAN: the gate piers, gates, railings and steps form part of a memorial garden located at the west end of The Grove, Ilkley's principal shopping street. The garden has an irregular hexagonal shape with the narrowest part at the east end and the second narrowest part at the west end bordering a stream. A First World War memorial (separately listed at Grade II) is located to the centre of the garden, at the end of a tree-lined processional path that runs east-west from a gated main entrance at the east end of the garden. Further secondary gated entrances lie on the north and south roadsides of the garden. A Second World War memorial lies on the same axis as the First World War memorial and is located towards the west end of the garden, flanked on each side by pavilion shelters (separately listed at Grade II).

DESCRIPTION: enclosing the memorial garden on the north, south and east sides is wrought-iron fencing incorporating panels with concave-shaped tops and decorative links. At the east end of the site is a pair of square sandstone gate piers with rounded caps surmounted by wrought-iron lamp standards, and decorative wrought-iron gates. Further wrought-iron gates in similar style exist to entrances on the north and south sides; that to the south side of the garden alongside Kings Road is accessed via a flight of stone steps with side walls surmounted by low wrought-iron railings in similar style to the gates.

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.