Moat Bridge And Attached Gate Piers At Entrance To Fulham Palace

Moat Bridge and attached gate piers at the entrance to Fulham Palace are notable structures. The bridge dates from the 15th century, while the gate piers were added in the early 19th century. The bridge is made of limestone ashlar, with 15th-century parapet walls featuring triangular coping. These walls are the only visible remnants of the bridge, which was infilled between 1921 and 1924. Historical drawings indicate that the bridge originally had a 15th-century moulded pointed arch spanning the moat, which itself dates back to the early 13th century. The two Gothic-style piers at the west end are early 19th century and include traceried panels, a brattished cornice, and pyramidal caps.

Additionally, there is a lodge located on the northeast side of the entrance drive, built in the early 19th century. It is mostly rendered to imitate stone and has a tiled roof, designed in an eccentric Tudor Gothic style. The lodge is a single storey with dormers and features an irregular composition. It includes an asymmetrical round tower with a conical roof and a tall Tudor-style chimney with four shafts. The lodge has a crenellated bay window, an entrance porch with a traceried plaster vault and a Tudor entrance arch, as well as square-headed mullioned cusped windows and decorative bargeboards. The adjoining stone parapet of the former moat bridge and the pair of early 19th-century gate piers, made of stone and featuring traceried panels, complete the entrance.