Gatepiers To Holden Park With Flanking Wall, 4 Piers And Gateway To Left And 5 Piers And 3 Gatepiers To Right

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KEIGHLEY KEIGHLEY ROAD (north side) Oakworth Gatepiers to Holden Park with flanking wall, 4 piers and gateway to left and 5 piers and 3 gatepiers to right

GV II

Gatepiers and flanking walls, piers and gatepiers. Early-mid C19. Coursed stone and ashlar. Gatepiers: square-sectioned, each with a stepped plinth, 2 panels separated by fluted band, the lower p-nel with chamfered, sunk cross, the upper panel with bronze plaque attached; entablature with cornice rising to semicircle on each face; capped by bronze blackmore statue. Right pier has plaque giving names of urban district council members of 1925, when the park was opened to the public, and statue holds torch and snake. Left pier has plaque commemorating donation of park to the public and statue holds torch and ball. To either side of gatepiers is a pedestrian archway with moulded surround. The flanking walls are ramped down to the side of these and continue with piers at regular intervals Wall has stepped plinth and moulded coping. Piers have plinth, 2 raised panels, entablature with pyramidal panel to frieze, and stepped capstone with gadrooned urn. To far left two similar piers act as gatepiers. To right, wall is ramped down, and continues at lower height with a shorter pier, a pair of shorter gatepiers, and one surviving tall gatepier at far right, all in similar style. Holden Park was the garden of Sir lsaac Holden's house of which only the port-cochère now remains.

Listing NGR: SE0347938829