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Gallery - Exterior Ironwork


You will see from the images in this section of our gallery that our work typically involves a range that extends from large installations involving railings and automated driveway gates to a single door knob forged in wrought iron - and pretty well anything in between.

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RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2009
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2009
Anwick Forge designed and produced a small suite of hand forged ironwork for the QVC Garden, a show garden designed by Adam Frost, at the 2009 Chelsea Flower Show.   The metalwork...
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RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2009
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2009
Adam Frost's QVC Garden is a tranquil space for an adult couple to enjoy on their own or with friends.  At its heart is a seating area and built-in fire...
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RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2009
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2009
Adam Frost wanted water to pour into the garden's two rills to provide both sound and movement.  To do the garden justice, however, he wanted something more than just a set...
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RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2009
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2009
These oversized arum lily waterspouts made by our blacksmiths from hand-forged mild steel were amongst the most photographed elements of Adam Frost's QVC Garden.    With form and function in perfect...
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Cast metal stair case to Notting Hill town house
Cast metal stair case to Notting Hill town house
The cast and forged stair case and landing provides access from the ground floor of a completely refurbished town house to the sunken garden.  We produced the riser and tread...
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Cast metal stair case to Notting Hill town house
Cast metal stair case to Notting Hill town house
The stair case was finished with cast aluminium balusters and a hand forged handrail which were sprayed with specialist black paint in our workshop.  We used the the same balusters...
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RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2009
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2009
Anwick Forge produced a 2.5m tall Ace of Spades motif for David Domoney's garden at Chealsea Flower Show 2009.  This biker's garden, also called Ace of Spades - a reference to...
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Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2009 - 'cube' water feature
Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2009 - 'cube' water feature
This water feature consists of a pair of cubes fabricated in mild steel to an incredibly tight specification.  They provide a strong architectural focal point for this ornamental vegetable garden...
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Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2009 - 'cube' water feature
Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2009 - 'cube' water feature
Thanks to carefully regulated flow of the coloured water they contain, the beautiful clean and crisp cubes create the optical illusion of being solid when viewed from any distance.  The...
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Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2009 - 'cube' water feature
Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2009 - 'cube' water feature
The cubes were filled with water that was coloured to match the steel which had been finished in gun metal grey.  The water gently overflowed into the base unit and...
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Ironwork with which to express your individuality.....
Ironwork with which to express your individuality.....
This project vividly illustrates that in commissioning Anwick Forge to design and produce your gates, you can let your imagination run riot and most definitely do not have to confine yourself...
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Ironwork with which to express your individuality.....
Ironwork with which to express your individuality.....
Metalwork representations of snipe, partridge and pheasant feature in these eye-catching driveway gates that the blacksmiths at Anwick Forge created over the first part of this year.  They complement a...
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Ironwork with which to express your individuality.....
Ironwork with which to express your individuality.....
These two spectacular pairs of automated driveway gates designed and produced at Anwick Forge by our blacksmiths really make a statement about the individual who lives here - his personality and...
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RHS Chelsea Flower Show
RHS Chelsea Flower Show
In winning not only a Gold Medal but also Best in Show for his Urban Garden, the garden for which we provided the ironwork pipped celebrity gardeners such as Rachel...
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RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2008
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2008
The ironwork for Adam Frost's gold medal winning garden, ‘A Welcome Sight’ consists of two parts.  One is a pair of raised polished steel water filled pools and rills which...
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RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2008
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2008
Rather than using a simple piece of round bar as a support for the pergola, we decided to incorporate more forgework.  The result was an upright formed from two interwined...
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RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2008
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2008
Adam gave us a free rein in developing design ideas for these loosely coiled polished steel vines.  Their curvaceous and organic shape form a transition between the straight, crisp lines of the hard...
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RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2008
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2008
This irregularly shaped rill had to be produced to a very tight specification in order to fit perfectly into its designated space in the garden.  Specail attention had to be...
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RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2008
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2008
The simple shape of the rill almost made the required for total precision in producing it all the more important as anything less than perfection would have stood out a mile! ...
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RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2008
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2008
Although it consists of little more than a rectangular trough mounted on a hidden post, this small rill had to be produced extremely precisely so that it fitted perfectly within...
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Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
Hot on the heels of our collaboration with Adam Frost and New Ground Landscapes at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, we worked together again at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower...
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Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
Once again working with gold medal wining garden designer Adam Frost and his team from New Ground Landscapes, Anwick Forge produced and installed all the metalwork for the RHS 'Growing...
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The Garden of Surprises, Burghley House
The Garden of Surprises, Burghley House
Anwick Forge was commissioned by the eminent landscape architect, George Carter, who designed the Garden of Surprises for Lady Victoria Leatham, to produce the main entrance gates to this fantastical...
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The Garden of Surprises, Burghley House
The Garden of Surprises, Burghley House
The elongated pyramid shapes as well as the ellispses and elliptical scrolls in the crown over the entrance gates can be seen in many places around Burghley House.   Our blacksmiths produced...
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The Garden of Surprises, Burghley House
The Garden of Surprises, Burghley House
This imposing entrance way itself appears to be one of the jokes within the Garden of Surprises. Its formality and classical styling provides no clues to the garden's wackiness, playfulness...
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Groundwork Lincolnshire - Monks Abbey Ruins
Groundwork Lincolnshire - Monks Abbey Ruins
Working with Groundwork Lincolnshire, we designed these simple gates to reflect the ecclesiastical history of the site, whilst ensuring that they still have a fairly contemporary overall look.  The precise...
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Groundwork Lincolnshire - Monks Abbey Ruins
Groundwork Lincolnshire - Monks Abbey Ruins
As part of this commission from Groundwork Lincolnshire, we held art workshops with children from a local primary school whose task it was to provide us with drawings  that featured scenes...
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Butterfly Gates
Butterfly Gates
It was love at first sight when our client saw just the drawings for these wonderfully flamboyant and highly unusual automated driveway gates. It is thanks to what she...
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Classic five-bar driveway gate
Classic five-bar driveway gate
This classic five-bar driveway gate enjoys the same understated elegance as our estate fencing. It is finished with a pair of hand forged scrolls, which soften the gate's otherwise...
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Classic five-bar pedestrian gate
Classic five-bar pedestrian gate
We added a couple of small, hand forged flourishes to this classic five bar pedestrian gate in order to avoid it looking it austere - and to make it absolutely...
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Contemporary gates with decorative side panel
Contemporary gates with decorative side panel
The design of these contemporary driveway gates perfectly illustrates the ability of hot-forged ironwork to express one's individuality: they grace the home of a family of keen sailors!   The story behind...
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Curved top railings panels
Curved top railings panels
These railings feature an unusual combination of hand forged scrolls and collars that are positioned so as to mirror the curved tops of the railing panels, providing a more dynamic...
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Full circle tree bench
Full circle tree bench
This tree bench was produced in two semi-circular sections. The quality of our workmanship and our customary attention to detail ensured that the two sections fitted together perfectly when they...
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Garden sculpture incorporating apple motif
Garden sculpture incorporating apple motif
This contemporary piece shows that ironwork doesn't have to be functional. Ironwork can just as easily be purely decorative - at which point it in effect becomes art.   This garden...
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Hand forged fish tails scroll door handle and matching studs
Hand forged fish tails scroll door handle and matching studs
We hand forged this spectacular door handle and its matching door studs in genuine wrought iron for a customer who demands only the best. They complement the solid oak front...
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Hand forged fishtail scroll bell pull with forged acanthus leaf motif
Hand forged fishtail scroll bell pull with forged acanthus leaf motif
We hand forged this elegant classic bell pull in genuine wrought iron for a customer who demands only the best and who pays great attention to detail. It complements a fishtail...
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Heavy duty gate handles
Heavy duty gate handles
These chunky gate handles, hand forged from solid bar, still have a light and modern look thanks to their natural metal finish.   There is actually more to these gate handles than...
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Manor House Gates
Manor House Gates
This pair of hand forged entry gates was designed for a client who wanted them to have 'no gratuitous decoration at all', but for them still to be in a...
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Rustic gate hinge
Rustic gate hinge
This hand forged gate hinge forms part of a set of four which were used to hang a pair of rustic tongue and groove timber gates. Our brief was...
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Rustic gate latch
Rustic gate latch
Our client loved the solidity and honesty of this entirely hand forged gate latch mechanism. When the handle is turned, the latch is raised an lowered and is held...
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Showcase pedestrian gate
Showcase pedestrian gate
This showcase pedestrian gate is so called because it was entirely made using traditional blackmsithing techniques. It incorporates no electrical welding, no mechanical punching and no pre-manufactured parts.   We have...
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Spiral-handled drop-bolts
Spiral-handled drop-bolts
Our brief for these drop bolts was to design something that looked both rustic and modern at the same time, and that also offered good ergonomics. Our client...
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Squiggle Gate
Squiggle Gate
The hand forged 'squiggle' features in this gate add a touch of humour to this otherwise quite sober automated driveway gate, but without detracting from its innate elegance.   Despite this driveway...
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Traditional Estate Fencing
Traditional Estate Fencing
This traditionally forged estate fencing has a timeless and elegant simplicity which makes it an ideal choice for a property of almost any period. Produced using a wide range...
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