Fence, Piers And Gate To Brighton College Playing Fields

The fence, piers, and gate to the Brighton College Playing Fields were built between 1886 and 1887 and designed by architect Thomas Graham Jackson, who also worked on the Eastern Road range and Chapel extension of the College. The structure features iron cast by Heart, Son, Peard and Co. of Birmingham, with a combination of flint and brick, along with stone dressings and copings. The plain piers are rectangular in shape, and between each pair is a low plinth made of flint with a stone coping, topped by cast-iron spearhead uprights. The middle upright is designed as a fluted colonnette and is crowned with a fleur-de-lys. At the southernmost end of the fence, where it meets Walpole Terrace, the gate piers are taller than the others and are topped with simple obelisks. Some of the uprights on the northern sections of the fence are missing, and the piers in that area are damaged.