The Golden Gates on the S avenue of Elvaston Castle came originally from a Royal Palace in Madrid from where Napoleon took them to Versailles.
The Golden Gates on the S avenue of Elvaston Castle came originally from a Royal Palace in Madrid from where Napoleon took them to Versailles as spoils of war. After Napoleon's defeat in 1819, the Third Earl of Harrington had them shipped to England & placed before the neo-Gothic S front of his country house. In 1834 William Barron, Head Gardener to the Fourth Earl, moved them to their present position, flanking them with 15-foot-high cast iron railings specially made in the West Midlands. C17th statues of Hercules and the Nemean Lion, and Jason and the Golden Fleece, stand on the end pillars faced with Chellaston alabaster. The castle is renowned for the exotic pleasure gardens created by William Barron in 1930-50 for the Fourth Earl of Harrington and his wife the former actress Maria Foote.
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Location: Golden Gates, Elvaston Castle Country Park, Borrowash, Derby, Derbyshire, England, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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