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gates/railings/walls — Prospect Road

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Cast-iron gates and railings, erected c. 1878 as eastern boundary of St. Vincent de Paul's Male Orphanage (now demolished) and now enclosing housing development of c. 1990. Double-leaf vehicular gate and flanking pedestrian gates supported on square-plan cast-iron gate piers with arabesque foliate panels, openwork rosette frieze with cross-bracing, solid panel having three rosettes to each elevation and corniced cap. Tulip-headed tops to gate stiles and railings, with scrolled frieze above and topped with inverted Y-shaped finials, on chamfered limestone plinth wall; supporting rails braced to west by scrolled cast-iron buttresses.

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