Gate Piers And Cast Iron Gate To Former Midland Railway Station

The gate piers and cast iron gate to the former Midland Railway Station are located on Station Street and date back to 1839. They are the only surviving features of the station designed by William Parsons in the Greek Revival style. The station was demolished in 1890 and rebuilt. The structure includes two stone piers made of five slightly tapering ashlar blocks on a projecting single block base course. Each pier features a frieze and a moulded classical cornice topped with a weathered capping block. The sides of the piers are adorned with a central vertical band that stops against a vertical console bracket beneath the frieze. A single leaf cast iron gate, which has fleur de lys finials on the vertical bars, is hinged to the west side of the west pier.