Golden Gates and Attached Walls at Elvaston Castle
GOLDEN GATES AND ATTACHED WALLS AT ELVASTON CASTLE, BORROWASH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096397
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Golden Gates and Attached Walls at Elvaston Castle
- Statutory Address:
- GOLDEN GATES AND ATTACHED WALLS AT ELVASTON CASTLE, BORROWASH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096397
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Golden Gates and Attached Walls at Elvaston Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- GOLDEN GATES AND ATTACHED WALLS AT ELVASTON CASTLE, BORROWASH ROAD
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GOLDEN GATES AND ATTACHED WALLS AT ELVASTON CASTLE, BORROWASH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- South Derbyshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elvaston
- National Grid Reference:
- SK4071132580
Details
SK 43 SW
2/29
10.11.67
PARISH OF ELVASTON
BORROWASH ROAD
(West Side)
Golden Gates and Attached Walls at Elvaston Castle
II
Gates, railings and attached walls. C18 gates re-erected at
Elvaston in mid C19 for the Earl of Harrington by his gardener
William Barron, with attached mid C19 walls. Painted iron gates
and railings with marble clad piers and ashlar walls. Large
pair of gates to centre with railings to either side ending in
large square piers, attached to the far side of which there are
curved walls. The gates have the rails grouped in bunches of
three and the central rail of each is topped by a large arrow
head finial. Each gate has two decorative scrolled wrought iron
panels. Similar smaller panels to open square posts to either
side, each of which is topped by a lantern, set on scrolled
feet. Above the gates, between the posts, there is an ornate
overthrow with a coronet finial and a central circle inscribed
'H H and Deo et Rege'. Railings on either side stand on a stone
plinth and have small gates to each side of the main gate posts.
To base the railings have a row of upright flame finials, near
the top they have a double row of upright and inverted flame
finials and above again each rail has an arrow head finial.
Large marble clad piers to either end are surmounted by large
stone statues and attached to far side of each there are curved
walls which have deep tapering plinths and ridgeback copings,
plus small piers at regular intervals with cruciform shaped
ridgeback coping stones. Erected during the creation of the
lavish gardens, designed by William Barron between 1830 and
1860, which are included in the Derbyshire Historic Gardens
Register at Grade II*. The gates reputedly belonged to Napoleon
and were originally sited in Paris.
Listing NGR: SK4071132580
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 83015
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 10 Derbyshire,
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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