Gatehouse To Sutton Court

TRING CHURCH YARD SP 9211 (East side) 11/55 Gatehouse to Sutton Court - GV II Gatehouse to clergy house now Sutton Court (q.v.). 1825, said to have been designed by Rev. Charles Lacy, incumbent 1819-39, and built at his expense (Richards(1974)38). E bay removed c.1970. Red brick with stone and stucco dressings and steep old red tile roof. A tall single-storey gatehouse range facing S. A convincing Tudor style design with large gabled 4-centred arched gateway, blank stone shields in panel over, octagonal crenellated turrets and jamb mouldings unbroken at spriging of the arch. Plinth and hoodmould to arch continued as strings across turrets. Raking brick coping to gables front and rear. Square passageway has moulded rib cross-vault with floral boss at centre and at wall ends of ribs, and corner corbels. Elaborate wooden traceried double doors in W wall. Buckley dwg of 1832 (HRO) shows gateway in middle of 3-bays range, but E bay now gone. W bay remains with projecting W gable chimney, blank labelled recess on S, 3-light large mullioned and transomed labelled window on N, and W-end door under tiled lean-to hood with elaborately cusped brackets. Gabled N side of gateway has simpler mouldings and stepped brick buttresses with tumbled offsets.

Listing NGR: SP9244611533