School Gates And Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1976. A C16 Gate.

School Gates And Piers

WRENN ID: odd-merlon-pigeon
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Dorset
Country: England
Date first listed: 7 December 1976
Type: Gate
Source: Historic England listing

Description

SY 79 NW 12/220 7-12-76

PIDDLETRENTHIDE, PIDDLETRENTHIDE VILLAGE (EAST SIDE), School Gates and Piers

GV II

Gates, probably originally from the tomb of Lady Margaret Beaufort in Westminster Abbey. C16. Wrought-iron. Spear headed uprights with horizontal rails. The upper rail is broad and bears a cable-moulding with lozenge shaped jewels beneath. Square-set hinge parts with decorative 3-stage weather buttresses taking the form of a Doric column above the top rail and supporting a finial. Probably early C19 rusticated, pointed, monolithic stone gate piers. The gates formed a part of the collection of John Bridge and were removed from Westminster Abbey c.1820. Gates relocated to new school in 1999.

RCHM, Dorset, vol III, p 216, no 3.

Listing NGR: SY7064899585

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