Main North Gates, Lord Wandsworth College

Main north gates to Lord Wandsworth College, built 1914-1915 to the designs of Reginald Blomfield.

MATERIALS: walls constructed of red brick, with stone dressings and iron gates.

DESCRIPTION: grand gates in a swaggering Edwardian Baroque manner, fronting the White Hill road to the north. There are three decorative iron gates, with a central carriage entrance flanked by two pedestrian entrances, framed by substantial brick gate piers capped with stone urns. From the gate piers spring a stone-capped brick arch with a festooned central cartouche bearing Lord Wandsworth’s heraldic shield. The symmetrically-composed flanking walls arc around to the road to give a broad approach to the gates. The stone-capped walls step down in height and terminate with brick piers which are also capped with stone urns.