DERBYSHIRE HERITAGE

ASHBOURNE CHURCH GATEPOSTS
The top of each of the three gateposts to Ashbourne church are supported by skulls. They all have a skull at each corner. It is thought that the gateposts were the work of Robert Bakewell one of Derby’s finest craftsmen. They date from 1700 and were set back a few feet from their original position in 1958, during road-widening