Fence, Piers And Gate To Brighton College Playing Fields

BRIGHTON

TQ3204SW COLLEGE TERRACE 577-1/42/175 Fence, piers and gate to Brighton College Playing Fields

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Fence, piers and gateway to playing fields of Brighton College (qv). 1886-87. Designed by Thomas Graham Jackson, architect of the Eastern Road range and Chapel extension of the College (qv). Iron cast by Heart, Son, Peard and Co. of Birmingham; flint and brick with stone dressings and copings. Plain piers, rectangular in section; between each pair stretches a low plinth of flint with stone coping and, above, cast-iron spearhead uprights; the middle upright, treated as a fluted colonnette, is topped by a fleur-de-lys. The gate piers found on the southernmost end of the fence at the start of Walpole Terrace are taller than the rest and are topped by simple obelisks. Many uprights gone from north ranges of the fence, the piers of which are damaged.

Listing NGR: TQ3247104289