West Gates, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh

The Inner Gates and East Gates of the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh were constructed around 1876 and feature distinctive architectural elements. The West Gate includes a semicircular entrance forecourt with four ashlar gatepiers topped with corniced caps, a base course, and a string course. It has two-leaf spear-headed cast-iron gates for the carriage entrance and single gates for the pedestrian entrances.

The boundary walls consist of spear-headed cast-iron railings atop a dwarf wall along Arboretum Place, Inverleith Terrace, and part of Inverleith Place. There is also a round-coped random rubble boundary wall at the back gardens of Inverleith Row.

The East Gate features an outer gate built in 1934, with stop-chamfered ashlar gatepiers that have corniced caps and acanthus leaf carvings. It includes a flanking coped wall and two-leaf wrought-iron gates, likely made by Thomas Hadden & Co, adorned with rhododendron flower and foliage details. Above the flanking wall, decorative wrought-iron railings with leaf motifs are present. The inner gate, dating from around 1925, has gatepiers with a two-leaf carriage entrance and flanking footgates, made of coped ashlar with stepped detailing over the footgates. The decorative gates, created in 1996 by architect Ben Tindall and blacksmith Alan Dawnson, are made of electroplated stainless steel and feature designs of Rhododendron calopytum flowers.