Gate Screen, Kilwarlin Moravian Church, Hillsborough, Co. Down, BT26 6DZ

Gate screen to Kilwarlin Moravian Church complex, erected c.1855, on the south side of Kilwarlin Road. Pair of decorative cast-iron carriage gates with pine cone finials supported on pair of painted tooled sandstone ashlar pillars with capstones and ball finials having Greek key raised motif. Matching cast-iron wicket gate to either side also supported on lower piers, detailed as above. Low rendered screen wall to either side with matching cast-iron railing set into coping stone, with exposed vermiculated sandstone blocks to the south elevation only. The screen wall is terminated by a tall rustic pier to either end continuing as a quadrant wall constructed of rock-faced sandstone ashlar and finished with large quartzite boulders as coping. The former Verger’s cottage to the west has been heavily refurbished c.2000, with the removal of roof and all external and internal fabric. Piers Sandstone ashlar Gates Cast-iron