Gates, Piers And Flankings Balustrades And Walls To Girsby Manor

Girsby Manor's gates, gate piers, flanking balustrades, and walls were built around 1840 and reconstructed in 1905. They are made of brick, ashlar, concrete, and wrought iron. The entrance features a pair of wrought iron gates with decorative upper and lower rails and vertical panels that include curlicues. These gates are topped with a scrolled decoration and flanked by square ashlar pillars with moulded bases and capitals, which have an egg and dart frieze and segmental pediments topped with moulded concrete foxes. The front pediments display scrolled cartouches, one with the initials "V.U.St.J" and the other with the date "1905." On either side of the gates are straight ashlar balustrades topped with curling wrought iron side brackets, which end in square piers with ball finials. There are also curving sections of balustrade that terminate in similar piers. On the roadside, there are low brick walls with stone coping, consisting of 9 bays to the left and 3 bays to the right, separated by square brick piers topped with stone ball finials. Girsby Manor, which has since been demolished, was owned by the Fox family, which is reflected in the rebus gate piers erected by John St. Vigor Fox.