Description

SW 62 SE CURY

3/9 Gate-piers and flanking walls
10.7.57 at approx 200m north of Bochym
Manor House
GV II*

Gate-piers and flanking walls. Probably circa 1699. Dressed serpentine gate-piers
and serpentine rubble walls with dressed coping to either side.
Tall piers are square-on-plan with plinths projecting at front and rear; torus
moulded entablature string; plain ashlar course frieze; inverted chamfer cornice and
surmounted by pyramid copings with ball finials. Flanking walls have roll-moulded
saddle-back copings. Stile at far right.
A particularly fine and complete pair of gate-piers, closely spaced and only wide
enough to permit passage of carriages of the time, thereby accentuating their
imposing height.
Historical information kindly supplied by the present occupier and taken from a
history of the Lyle family by Dr John Martin Robinson FS.

Listing NGR: SW6906721039

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17556003

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)