File:Gate piers near Hamstead Marshall (3) (geograph 2285762).jpg
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English: Gate piers near Hamstead Marshall (3). Gate piers of Hamstead Marshall House, a major Berkshire mansion built in 1661-65 and destroyed by fire in 1718. They are of brick, with shell-headed niches and topped by urns. Designed by Edward Pierce in 1663. Grade I listed. Eight of the nine sets of gate piers stand in situ, indicating the extent of the former house and gardens. They are now a rather poignant sight, isolated in the middle of fields and parkland like orphaned children. Pevsner described them as 'pathetic', others have described them as 'clumsy', 'the finest piers of their kind in England', and as expressing 'a sense of vanished magnificence'. The ninth set, which stood outside the main entrance, was moved in the late C18th to nearby Benham Park. Information partly from "Craven Country, the story of Hamstead Marshall" by Penelope Stokes. |
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