Main Entrance, Ormeau Park, Belfast, County Antrim

Main entrance gates to the south of Ormeau Park at Ormeau Road, comprising two sets of cast-iron gates with red sandstone gate screen to either side; constructed c.1895 to designs by W. J Gilliland with ironwork to designs by Thomas Brown & Co. Entrance comprises two pairs of carriage entrance gates at the head of a carriage drive into the park, and two side gates for pedestrians. Red ashlar sandstone gate screens and central gate pier with plinth and corner pilasters; central pier with partially fluted pilasters and ornately carved capital heads; carved wreaths to frieze, surmounted by ornately carved and scrolled corniced sandstone cap with finial. To front and rear of the central pier is a raised carved sandstone panel with the arms of the city of Belfast inscribed “Pro tanto quid retribuamus” (for so much what we shall repay).