North Gate of the Royal Pavilion and Attached Railings

Details

BRIGHTON

TQ3104SW CHURCH STREET
577-1/40/151 (South side)
13/10/52 North Gate of the Royal Pavilion and
attached railings

II*

Gate. Dated 1832 on entablature. Architect, Joseph Good,
perhaps working to designs by John Nash, for William IV. Bath
and Portland stone. Copper onion dome over the gateway, the
rest obscured by parapet. Tripartite composition, with tall,
central portion containing the gateway flanked by 2
single-storey wings. Each part roughly square in plan.
"Orientalised" Indian style.
The north- and south-facing elevations are identical. In the
centre an ogival diaphragm arch with scalloped intrados; at
the point of the arch to the south are a crown and the Prince
of Wales' feathers; a lion and a crown on the north. The
entrance arch set within a shallow aedicule bordered by a
cable moulding; a broad entablature above bears an
inscription: W.R. IIII. A.D.MDCCCXXXII; corner octagonal piers
to centre section of 2 stages, panelled in upper section and
bearing Royal Heraldic symbols; top stage of each pilaster
topped by a minaret; drip cornice and lotus parapet continuous
around all sides, running over, in shallow relief, the corner
pilasters; set back from parapet an onion dome with high
finial; the returns of the centre section are blank. The
single-storey wings are topped by a similar parapet, which is,
however, interrupted by octagonal corner pilasters; the latter
have finials in the form of tapering, fluted Tuscan columns
each topped by an egg finial; aedicules in each face of the
low wings have a scaled-down and blind version of the centre
gate motif; each return has an ogival-arched window flanked by
tall, thin rectangular light with keyhole lintels; each of
these tripartite return windows has decorative glazing bars of
an original early C19 design.
On each interior gate return, a flat-arched door set in
ogival-arched recess is flanked by a pair of ogival-arched
windows; the former has an original 3-panel door, each panel
fielded to form a 6-pointed star; the latter have sashes with
decorative glazing bars of original design. The elevation of
each interior return is treated as a blind, double-height
ogival archway, repeating the gate motif. The ceiling of the
gateway rises from scalloped pendentives to support a
double-coved dome topped by a domical lantern. Double doors to
Church Street, each of 8 panels and each panel fielded with a
6-pointed star. There is a pink granite drinking fountain on
the north face of the east wing, of late C19 or early C20
date. Also included in this listing is an early C20 electric
light fixture attached to the return of the west wing.
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-: 161K).

Listing NGR: TQ3130004313

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Sources

Books and journals
Carder, T, Encyclopaedia of Brighton, (1990), 161K

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