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Title*

South Gates of Crown Point Hall
County Norfolk   District Council South Norfolk 
Civil Parish or equivalent Trowse  Town/Village* Trowse Newton 
Road Kirby Road 
Precise Location Facing south onto road 
OS Grid Ref TG255065  Postcode NR14 
Previous location(s)  
Setting Gates to park and house  Access Public 
Artist/Maker Role Qualifier
H.E. Coe  Architect(s)   

Commissioned by

 Sir Robert Harvey 

Design & Constrn period

 1865 

Date of installing

  

Exact date of unveiling

  

Category
Abstract Animal Architectural
Commercial Commemorative Composite
Free Functional Funerary
Heraldic Military Natural
Non-Commemorative Performance Portable
Religious Roadside, Wayside Sculptural
Temporary, Mobile Other  

Object Type
Building Clock Tower Architectural
Coat of Arms Cross Fountain
Landscape Marker Medallion
Mural Panel Readymade
Relief Shaft Sculpture
Statue Street Furniture War Memorial
Other Object Sub Type: Gates and gateposts

Subject Type
Allegorical Mythological Pictorial
Figurative Non-figurative Portrait
Still-life Symbolic Other

Subject Sub Type
Bust Equestrian Full-length
Group Head Reclining
Seated Standing Torso
Part Material Dimension
Piers with urns  Brick and stone  H. 5 metres W. & D. 90 cms 
Swags over gates at sides  Stone  L. 1 metre 20 
Main gates  Cast Iron  H. 3.5 metres W. 1metre 15 cms 

Work is
Extant Not Sited Lost

Owner/Custodian

 Whitllingham Hospital 

Listing status
Grade I Grade II* Grade II Don't Know Not Listed

Surface Condition
Corrosion, Deterioration Accretions
Bird Guano Abrasions, cracks, splits
Biological growth Spalling, crumbling
Metallic staining Previous treatments
Other  
Detail: The iron work of the gates is now very rusty and they have lost the ornament from their top surviving on one of the smaller side gates

Structural Condition
Armature exposed Broken or missing parts
Replaced parts Loose elements
Cracks, splits, breaks, holes Spalling, crumbling
Water collection Other
Detail:

Vandalism
Graffiti Structural damage Surface Damage
Detail:

Overall condition
Good Fair Poor

Risk
No Known Risk At Risk Immediate
Signatures/Marks  
Inscriptions  

Description (physical)

 The gates are set back from the road with the curving flint wall preserved on the left but the symmetry of the scheme was marred with the later addition of the gatehouse on the right. The low flint wall is punctuated by piers topped by urns -slightly less elaborated versions of those crowning the two central rusticated piers with their elaborate but sorely rusted gates. There are smaller gates for pedestrians at the sides set under swags. 

Description (iconographical)

 The gateway was commissioned as part of Sir Robert Harvey's grandiose scheme for his house -Crown Point House here - and bank in Agricultural Hall Plain Norwich of 1866 NFnrNOR002. After Harvey's financial failure and suicide in 1870 the house was taken over by J.J. Colman - the mustard king - before becoming Whitlingham Hospital. 

Photographs

 Date taken:  5/10/2006
Date logged: 

Photographed by:
Sarah Cocke

On Site Inspection

 Date:  5/10/2006

Inspected by:
Richard Cocke

Sources and References

 BOE I 699 

Database

 Date entered:  12/1/2007

Data inputter:
Richard Cocke