Old doorway in NW boundary wall of priory bawn (to rear of 37 Court Street), former Castle Gardens, west of Canal Row, Newtownards, Co Down, BT23 3NU

Remains of a doorway (or gateway) set within the (N) boundary wall of the BT complex, to the W of Canal Row, S of Newtownards town centre. The doorway is now blocked with rubble, but the moulded architrave is still discernible with semicircular arch with impost stones and carved decoration to the ‘spandrel abutments’. Dressed stones beyond jambs. On the opposite side of the wall (at the rear of No.37 Court Street), is the gateway outline consists of a cruder looking arch with stone dressings. Further to the E of the doorway are the remains of what appear to be two square-ish gate piers with moulded pedestal course and entablature, with moulded architrave and cornice surmounted by a blocking course. The space between the pillars (c.3m) is now filled in with rubble and brick.