Erection date: 2014
{On each of the 4 gate leaves:}
Southwark Park Act - 150 years
{On the railings either site of each pair of gates, left to right}
1864
2014
SE16, Southwark Park, carriageway
There are a pair of these gates on each side of the carriageway which bisects the Park.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Southwark Park Act gates
The Park was created mainly from market gardens. More information at Histori...
This small plaque is on the inner gate pier to the left of our photo. From London Gardens Online: "The old parsonage was demolished in 17...
A nearby information board provides: "Following site redevelopment these splendid gates, from the original National Physical Laboratory (...
The steps are rather grand for a public park and look to us as if left over from a now-demolished substantial building (factory, head off...
St Giles-in-the-Fields was founded as a leper hospital by Matilda, Queen of Henry I in 1101; it was dissolved in 1539 and its former chap...
We can't find any information explaining these gates but they were probably part of the 1958 post-war rebuild of the church and cloisters.
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