Entrance Gates, Childwick Bury Stud

The entrance gates to Childwick Bury Stud were built around 1888 for Sir John Blundell Maple, Member of Parliament and founder of the stud. The gates feature classical-style gate piers made of Portland stone ashlar, which frame ornamental double wrought iron gates and smaller pedestrian wrought iron gates on either side. Each of the two free-standing square gate piers has a moulded offset plinth and banded rustication on the shaft. They are topped with a taller block that has a square panel in a moulded frame on each face, and a moulded cornice with a ball finial on the blocking course. The double wrought iron gates display a closely set, repetitive pattern of linked, scrolled quatrefoils that rise into a pyramidal, scrolled top.