Piers, Gates And Walls To Holyrood House

The piers, gates, and walls at Holyrood House date from around 1840. They feature two substantial piers made of Ham Hill stone, each with hollow-moulded recessed rectangular panels that contain pointed arches and sunk spandrels. The piers have moulded cornices and shallow pyramidal caps, and they are strongly chamfered. The iron gates cover two-thirds and one-third of the opening, with long and short rails projecting below the bottom horizontal. There is a pierced frieze of floral squares just below the centre of the gates. The short rails are topped with ornamented spearheads, while the long rails have large trefoil-type heads linked by semi-circular loops; these ornaments are made of cast iron. A high wall constructed of chert extends to the church boundary on the left (east) and continues west, where it turns south to meet an outbuilding.