The main entrance to the park was by way of a triumphal arch on Mount Road, built 1815 to a design by Benjamin Gummow, of Ruabon, also responsible for Brogyntyn Hall's portico. Presumably a celebration of the defeat of Napoleon.
Grade II listed, the archway has two square projections, highly bijou accommodation for the lodge-keeper.
Wrought iron railings connect the arch to a pedestrian entrance to the south. Large sections of the gateway lie nearby (below).
West of the drive that once ran from the gateway to the Hall, and hidden within a plantation of trees, are the few remains of a semi-circular temple, from which there were views of Oswestry hill-fort.
The temple was built of rendered brickwork, with fluted pilasters and a dentilled pediment in stone. Mere fragments of each remain.
"Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
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