Description

PORTSMOUTH

SU60SE MILTON ROAD, Milton
774-1/4/288 (East side)
Gate piers and gates, Milton
Cemetery

GV II

Gate piers and gates. 1910. By GE Smith. Ashlar stone and
iron. Each of the 4 stone piers has deep moulded cornice and
base, capped with a metal urn set on elaborate metal
sub-structure supported on stone base. Each face of the centre
piers has a recessed panel with narrow incised margins; front
and rear faces have to lower half a projecting splayed stone
face surmounted by stone garland and at top of the recessed
panel is a keystone with City of Portsmouth coat of arms and
date 1910 inscribed below. The 2 smaller flanking side piers
have plain recessed panel to each side with moulded surround.
The main 2-leaf centre gates and smaller side gates are in
ornate ironwork each hung from wide pierced iron fretted
posts. City of Portsmouth coat of arms at centre rail of each
side gate.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Lloyd DW: Hampshire and
the Isle of Wight: Harmondsworth: 1967-: 445).

Listing NGR: SU6610802158

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26397847

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Recommended Books

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)