Louise Carnegie Memorial Gates, Pittencrieff Park, Dunfermline

The Louise Carnegie Memorial Gates, designed in 1927-29 by Jamieson and Arnott with ironwork by Thomas Hadden, stand within Pittencrieff Park, Dunfermline. The gates comprise three pairs of double wrought-iron gates set within a large semicircular arrangement of low railed walls and curved wall sections flanked by paired piers. A segmental-plan railed recess is situated to the southeast. The design is Neo-Baroque, incorporating details reminiscent of circa 1700.

The piers are constructed of lightly droved sandstone ashlar with polished ashlar dressings and display alternating pulvinated bands and are surmounted by urns. The central pair of gates are decorated with wrought-iron flowers, fruit, foliage, and scrolls, incorporating intertwined initials AC and LC (Andrew Carnegie and Louise Carnegie). The gate stanchions curve upwards to form cage-like square-plan wrought-iron gate piers, topped with scrolled decoration and plant finials. The flanking pairs of square-plan piers also feature alternating pulvinated bands and a central pilaster; their frieze is surmounted by a moulded cornice and urns decorated with festoons. These piers are linked by a lintel below the frieze, with a wrought-iron panel bearing a thistle finial positioned between them.

A railed wall, featuring scrolled panels, separates this arrangement from the flanking sections. A curved section of wall, incorporating a lamp on a wrought iron support, adjoins a further pair of piers to the outer right, identical to the first but without an intervening lintel, and set at a right angle to the preceding pair. A similar arrangement exists to the outer left, except the curved section of wall and lamp adjoin piers set back slightly, with the left pier being smaller, possessing a plain shaft, moulded cornice, and a squat urn topped with an obelisk-like finial; this is connected by a lintel with a wrought iron panel with thistle finial. Identical arrangements are found on the other side of the railed recess, including steps and scrolled panels to the railings. The outermost curved section of wall on that side, also incorporating a lamp, adjoins a single pier with alternating pulvinated bands and a festooned urn. A section of wall to the outer left adjoins the gable end of an adjacent building and projects forward at a right angle to meet the street.

A pair of lamp standards, standing on chamfered stone pedestals, are located on either side of the triple gates. Each lamp standard features a wrought-iron cage-like post decorated with scrolls, surmounted by an octagonal-plan lantern.