Gateway And Boundary Wall At Swanswell Entrance To Lady Herberts Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Coventry local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 May 2001. Gateway, boundary wall.

Gateway And Boundary Wall At Swanswell Entrance To Lady Herberts Garden

WRENN ID
inner-copper-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Coventry
Country
England
Date first listed
25 May 2001
Type
Gateway, boundary wall
Source
Historic England listing

Description

COVENTRY

SP3379SE

833/2/10119

Gateway and Boundary Wall at Swanswell Entrance to Lady Herbert's Garden

25-MAY-01

II

Gateway and boundary wall to memorial garden. 1930, by Albert Herbert for his cousin Sir Alfred Herbert, in memory of Florence Herbert. Red sandstone ashlar, with bronze railing and gates. Pair of rebated square gatepiers with moulded square caps. Pair of bronze gates with vertical bars, foliage enrichment and acanthus finials. On each side, incurving flanking walls with chamfered plinth and chamfered coping with roll mould. To left, a bronze plaque inscribed 'Lady Herbert's Garden'. Atop the wall, a bronze railing approximately 125mm high, with a single square bar carried on posts with acorn finials and the initials 'FH' (Florence Herbert).

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30 October 2019.

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