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Public park, enclosed 1898, incorporating foundations of former Newgate Prison. Coursed rubble limestone plinth walls with cut limestone coping and spiked cast-iron railings to south, east, and west boundaries. Cement rendered boundary wall, shared with court house to north. Double-leaf cast-iron gates flanked by panels of scrolled cast-iron ornament to west and east elevations, and bowed corner bastions at south-west and south-east corners. Metal street name plaques to railings. Recent paving and lamp posts to interior. Elevated grass mounds to interior perimeter bounded by coursed limestone plinth walls, one with carved limestone monument. Handball alley in north-east corner, built c.1900, having recent perspex wall to south. Eight mature beech trees to interior of perimeter. Concrete paved paths to exterior with granite kerbstones. Stone setts to corner of Halston Street and Cuckoo Lane.
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