ENTRANCE SCREEN AND GATES TO HARTFORD HALL - West Bedlington - List Entry

  • Description

    Entrance screen and gates, 1873. Squared stone, cast and wrought iron. Gates by Coalbrookdale Co., Shropshire (maker's plates). 4 openwork piers with central double gates and side gates having central open section with ornate foliage decoration; elaborate heads to bars. To either side similarly ornate sections of railing, with top rail swept up to end in human hand grasping top of bar adjacent to gate pier, on cast-iron dwarf wall. Flanking quadrant walls have low gabled coping; end piers with large ball finials. The gates were made for and exhibited at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873; one of the most ornate examples of High Victorian ironwork in the North of England.
  • Owner

    Historic England
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    Link: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1041381
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    Added by: Peter Smith
    Last modified: 10 months ago
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