Garden gate
Category
Metalwork
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wrought iron, lead and paint
Measurements
1550 mm (Height); 3680 mm (Length)
Order this imageCollection
Courts, Holt, Wiltshire
NT 334805
Summary
Wrought iron gates to the lower Arboretum decorated with arrow head finials to main palings and dog bars. Pier supports with lozenge shaped lattice surmounted by anthemion finials. Ironwork was painted black with evidence for gold paint to the anthemions to the gate piers and the inside faces of the ears to the dog bar finials. The gate piers are decorated at the intersection of the diamond bars with cast lead rosettes. The outer faces of the rosettes were finished with a gold paint.
Provenance
introduced by Sir George Hastings or by Major Goff?