Survey Data
Reg No
13303013
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social, Technical
Original Use
Gates/railings/walls
In Use As
Gates/railings/walls
Date
1800 - 1820
Coordinates
211431, 280202
Date Recorded
12/08/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Entrance gates formerly serving St. Anne’s Church of Ireland rectory, erected c. 1810, comprising a pair of dressed limestone gate piers (on square-plan), with chamfered plinths, moulded capstones and having double leaf cast and wrought-iron gates. Main carriage entrance flanked to either side by cast and wrought-iron pedestrian gates and terminated by dressed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having cut limestone capstones over. Rubble limestone boundary walls to the southwest and southwest, along road-frontage. Located to the southwest of St. Anne’s Church of Ireland rectory (13303014), now derelict, and to the northeast of Newtown-Forbes.
Appraisal
A simple but well-crafted gateway formerly served St. Anne’s Church of Ireland rectory (13303014), now ruinous. Although slightly damaged and out of use, it retains its early character and form. Good quality craftsmanship is apparent in the dressed limestone gate piers and the simple cast and wrought-iron gates. It forms an integral part of a group of structures along with the rectory (13303014) and the associated outbuildings (13303015) and is an interesting feature in the landscape to the northeast of Newtown-Forbes. The rubble stone boundary walls, although damaged, complete the setting and add to this composition. A gate lodge once stood to the east side of these gates, now no longer extant.