Two leaves meet under a low ogee top rail, filled with close-set vertical pickets above a solid bottom panel carrying a row of small stars. A ring medallion sits on the centre line, cut by the meeting stile so it only closes when the gate does. Black throughout, hung between stone columns on a gravel drive.
The roundel at the centre is the whole trick. It straddles the meeting stile, half the circle on each leaf, so the ornament reads as broken until the gate is shut and then snaps into one ring — and because it is the only ornament above the bottom panel, there is nothing else in the field to argue with it. The two builds here show the same roundel worked both ways: plain as a ring, and pierced with a letter.
That makes it the design to ask for when an entrance has something specific to say — an initial, a brand, an emblem — and wants it legible from the road. Set against The Inman Gate, which fills both leaves edge to edge with scroll, this one is close to plain, and the plainness is exactly what lets the circle carry.
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