Survey Data
Reg No
50070142
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Royal Military Infirmary
Original Use
Gates/railings/walls
Date
1780 - 1790
Coordinates
313574, 234529
Date Recorded
06/10/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Attached entrance archway, built c.1785, now blocked and no longer in use as an entrance. Rusticated granite walls having cut granite cornice with lead flashing above. Segmental arched opening having granite voussoirs. Opening recently infilled with rendered masonry. Standing with roughly coursed rubble limestone boundary walls. Former pedestrian entrance to south having granite block-and-start surround with keystone. Also recently infilled with rendered masonry.
Appraisal
This former entrance has a strong and imposing form giving a prominence to the former Royal Military Hospital on Infirmary Road, a complex that is otherwise largely hidden from the roadside. It displays skilled stonemasonry and presents itself as a suitable public face to the Infirmary beyond, a building designed by James Gandon and executed by William Gibson.