Gates, Gatepiers And Flanking Walls At Main Entrance To Park At Beechwood Park School

The gates, gatepiers, and flanking walls at the main entrance to Beechwood Park School were built in the 18th century, likely around 1760, by Sir William Chambers, who was also involved in the mansion's interiors for the Sebright family. The structure features wrought ironwork, Portland stone piers, and red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with moulded brick coping.

At the center of a concave sweep of 2-meter high brick walls, there are two widely spaced stone piers, each 5 meters tall, topped with urns. These piers flank a long wrought iron screen that contains central double gates, standards, and side gates, all adorned with lower overthrows of scrolled ironwork. The stone piers are delicately detailed, each measuring 1 meter square and featuring a shaft of channelled rustication. Each block has a vermiculated face and drafted margin at the joints, a projecting low moulded base, moulded necking, a plain frieze, and a moulded cornice capped with a Baroque, intricately carved large urn set high on a concave base.

The gates and standards include dog-bars in the bottom panels, with a scrolled bracket beside the higher standard and another scrolled panel at the head. Old photographs reveal scrolled terminals on both standards and an armorial scrolled great overthrow that is now rusting near the school.