Description

SUNDERLAND

NZ35NE SWAN STREET, Southwick
920-1/4/290 (North side)
Gates, piers and railings to south
of Monkwearmouth College Swan Street
Centre

II

Gates, gate piers, and railings to grammar school, now
tertiary college. c1925. Brick piers with painted concrete
dressings; wrought-iron gates and railings. 4 square piers
form vehicle and pedestrian entrances at centre of building: 2
central piers have plinths, top bands high corniced stepped
coping; a corniced beam links bands with corniced coping of
slightly lower outer square piers, also with plinths. Central
double and side single gates of square-section iron have
spiral finials to principals, central diagonal bracing framed
by double bars in upper sections, central double bars on
lower, with circles at intervals along top, central and bottom
horizontal bands. Spike-headed railings have panels of similar
pattern at intervals and are set in panels on low
segmental-headed wall.

Listing NGR: NZ3911558501

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502303

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Recommended Books

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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5