The South Gate And Attached Walls And Piers And Wooden Gates

The South Gate and attached walls, piers, and wooden gates form a memorial gateway to the Pavilion Gardens, dated 1921 on the east wall. Designed by Thomas Tyrwhitt, the structure is built of Bath stone and is 37 feet high, representing an archaeologically accurate essay in the Gujerati style.

The gateway has a square plan with a domed roof. Four square piers stand on high socles, to which octagonal columns are attached. Two volute brackets at each corner support a roof with two stages. The first stage is shallow and hipped, rising to a frieze ornamented with sunflowers and petals, with each corner terminating in an upturned, prow-like volute. Architraves then set back to form a square base from which a dome rises, crowned by a high pinnacle. Inside, corner squinches descend into an octagonal cornice with a flat ceiling above. Side walls and piers close off the road, with wooden gates set between panelled piers that have ornamented tops.

An inscription on the south face of the west wall reads: "This Gateway is the Gift of India in Commemoration of Her Sons Who Stricken in the Great War Were tended in the Pavilion in 1914 and 1915". An inscription on the east wall reads: "Dedicated to the Use of the Inhabitants of Brighton by H.H. the Maharaja of Patiala on October the 26th, 1921, B. Southall Mayor".

The structure stands near the site of the first south gate to the Pavilion, completed for William IV on 7 May 1831 to match the North Gate on North Street. Following the estate's purchase by the Borough in 1851, the original south gate was demolished to accommodate Pavilion Buildings, replaced with an iron gate for pedestrian access.