Architectural Curiosity

This morning I visited my Mother. She was comfortable but not really responding. I didn't stay very long. I walked back into town in the sunshine, through the old Hyde suburb of Winchester. My blip is of a curious old gateway oddly positioned in a flint garden wall. I have noticed it before but, not until now, carried out any research into its provenance. According to a paper in the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society, dated 2002, its origin is still a bit of mystery.Elizabethan and Jacobean decorative features at Hyde Winchester 
It appears that in about 1800, the gateway along with two pairs of niches were set into the wall surrounding  the  garden of Dr Richards' Academy, a school  run by Dr Richards in Hyde Abbey House( itself  built around 1700). Hyde Abbey House still exists but in the 1970's five houses were built on most of the garden, although the wall and the gateway and niches remain.The authors of the paper suggest these architectural features were probably constructed in the Jacobean or Elizabethan for great houses elsewhere, and brought to Hyde by Dr Richards to make  an interesting antiquarian collection. The components of this gateway may even have come from different sources and then assembled on site! As can be seen in the photo, the street level has been raised since since the gateway was inserted into the wall, obscuring the lower half of the doorway, but apparently, on the  garden side, the bottom of the doorway is still at ground level.I think it is certainly an intriguing architectural feature.
This afternoon, I finally planted out my (very!) late sweet pea plants, before  visiting Doris again.