Golden Gates And Attached Walls At Elvaston Castle

SK 43 SW 2/29 10.11.67

PARISH OF ELVASTON BORROWASH ROAD (West Side) Golden Gates and Attached Walls at Elvaston Castle

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Gates, railings and attached walls. C18 gates re-erected at Elvaston in mid C19 for the Earl of Harrington by his gardener William Barron, with attached mid C19 walls. Painted iron gates and railings with marble clad piers and ashlar walls. Large pair of gates to centre with railings to either side ending in large square piers, attached to the far side of which there are curved walls. The gates have the rails grouped in bunches of three and the central rail of each is topped by a large arrow head finial. Each gate has two decorative scrolled wrought iron panels. Similar smaller panels to open square posts to either side, each of which is topped by a lantern, set on scrolled feet. Above the gates, between the posts, there is an ornate overthrow with a coronet finial and a central circle inscribed 'H H and Deo et Rege'. Railings on either side stand on a stone plinth and have small gates to each side of the main gate posts. To base the railings have a row of upright flame finials, near the top they have a double row of upright and inverted flame finials and above again each rail has an arrow head finial. Large marble clad piers to either end are surmounted by large stone statues and attached to far side of each there are curved walls which have deep tapering plinths and ridgeback copings, plus small piers at regular intervals with cruciform shaped ridgeback coping stones. Erected during the creation of the lavish gardens, designed by William Barron between 1830 and 1860, which are included in the Derbyshire Historic Gardens Register at Grade II*. The gates reputedly belonged to Napoleon and were originally sited in Paris.

Listing NGR: SK4071132580