Wall And Gates Alongside Road At Parish Church Of St James And School House

The wall and gates alongside the road at the Parish Church of St James and the School House were built between 1860 and 1861, likely designed by the architect G E Pritchett, who also designed the church, school, and school house. The structure features a long wall made of flint with frequent red brick piers, a red brick base course, and chamfered coping. The flint is uncoursed and knapped. Each pier has a limestone block at the top, which is adorned with a short cast iron finial shaped like a cusped spearhead, featuring a raised flower on each face. The wall supports a continuous square wrought iron rail that is twisted between the supports and ends in a four-hooked grapnel where the coping begins to rise towards each gate opening. At each gate opening, there are limestone projecting bottom blocks and quoins. The gates are made of timber with openwork designs, heavy cast iron hinges, and cast iron capping, topped with a horizontal iron rail. The use of varied materials is characteristic of the designs of the school, house, and church, and the overall design by Pritchett is noted as interesting and distinct from the original proposal shown in perspective.