Gate Piers With Attached Lamp Standards And Walls

This listing describes a pair of gate piers with attached lamp standards and walls located at the south end of Bristol Gate, on the east and west corners. They were built in the mid to late 19th century and feature a brick and stone facing over a flint rubble core, with low walls made of red brick. Each pier has a rebated square plan and four faces, each with a moulded stone base. Rising from the base is a fluted Tuscan pilaster, topped by an impost block that supports a continuous entablature around the pier. The corners are constructed from brick, and each pier is topped with iron elements that appear to have been lamp standards. The east pier is connected to low brick walls that curve gently towards Eastern Road, stepping down in three sections and topped with stone coping. The stone on each pier has worn away on the south and east faces, and the west corner pier is in particularly poor condition, with significant wear on the north and east faces and a nearly completely eroded south-east brick corner, exposing the rubble core. This listing does not include the low walls attached to the west pier, as they are considered to be of no distinction.