Entrance Gateway, Railings And Boundary Walling To Renishaw Hall

SK 4379 11/102 31.1.67

PARISH OF ECKINGTON PARK HILL Entrance gateway, railings and boundary walling to Renishaw Hall (formerly listed as main gates including railings and piers, Renishaw Hall)

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Gateway, incorporating stone gatepiers, ornamental iron gates and railings and stone boundary walls. Mid C19. Ashlar rusticated gatepiers to central gateway, and to ends of flanking masonry walls, square in plan, approximately 2.5 metres high, each rising off a shallow plinth, with a moulded cornice supporting a steep pyramidal cap on a squared base. The piers are widely spaced to accommodate two pairs of openwork piers of cast and wrought iron, forming gatepiers to flanking cast iron pedestrian gables, which support lampiron overthrows. Central carriage gates with gothic pointed arches to decorative arcading. Flanking the gatepiers are serpentine masonry walls on sloping ground, between 0.5 and 1 metre high, with an ashlar saddleback coping. The walls support decorative cast iron railings, and four openwork piers with lampirons over.

Listing NGR: SK4334679081