Gateway To South Of Elmore Court

SO 71 NE ELMORE ELMORE VILLAGE

1/54 Gateway to south of Elmore Court

10.1.55

II*

Carriage and pedestrian gateway; flanking walls and piers. Early C18; flanking walls are mid Cl9. By William Edney, blacksmith of Bristol for Sir John Guise at Rendcomb. Wrought iron; lias flanking walls. Central carriage gateway with flanking fixed panels and outer single-leaf pedestrian gates; curved flanking walls terminated by piers. 3 pairs of open-work piers, one within the other, of increasing size, all mounted on stone bases; inner 2 pairs with scroll-work; all topped by cyma moulded cornice and open-work urn-shaped finials on scrolled pedestals. Carriage gates have fern leaf cartouche in upper panel; fixed scrolled frame with cornice continuing from inner piers providing base of scrolled overthrow which includes monogram surmounted by swan badge of Guise family. Ball finials to flanking wall piers, each with Celtic cross. Wall continues to right of gateway, is terminated by stone pier with ball finial, and surmounted by iron railings. Gateway was removed from Rendcomb and re-erected here in early C19. (D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1976.)

Listing NGR: SO7828715192