Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Sion Gates (Upper pair)
Amroth, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 1 September 1997
- Locality
- Colby Estate
- Town
- Tenby
- Community
- Amroth
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.74070, -4.67008
- Cadw reference
- 18857
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
In the East Woods of Colby Woodland Gardens, on a woodland path close to the entrance to the gardens.
History
Gates from Sion House, Tenby (a house designed by John Nash), which was destroyed by fire in 1938. The date of the gates is unclear, but probably of the mid-C19.
Exterior
One of two similar pairs of cast-iron gates hung on stone piers. The piers are about 2.7 m apart. The gates are in a stylised floral manner. Each gate consists of a top and a bottom rail and a double rail at lock level, designed to resemble wrought-iron in the manner in which the bars penetrate. There are nine upright bars with stylised fircone knobs on the top. Below the lock rail are four cross-braces with large paired fern leaves filling the lozenges. The bar at the hinge end pivots in a ground socket.
Reason for designation
Listed as good early/mid C19 cast-iron gates which form a feature within the garden at Colby Lodge.
Nearby in the register
- Former Sion House Gates (Lower pair)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Colby LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- St Elidyr's ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- St Elidy's Church Cross BaseReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.