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KINGS BOARD, HILLFIELD GARDENS

KINGS BOARD, HILLFIELD GARDENS, LONDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1245719
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: KINGS BOARD, HILLFIELD GARDENS
Statutory Address:: KINGS BOARD, HILLFIELD GARDENS, LONDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1245719
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Dec-1998
List Entry Name:: KINGS BOARD, HILLFIELD GARDENS
Statutory Address 1:: KINGS BOARD, HILLFIELD GARDENS, LONDON ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: KINGS BOARD, HILLFIELD GARDENS, LONDON ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Gloucester (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO 84256 18976

Details

GLOUCESTER

SO8418NW LONDON ROAD 844-1/10/187 (North side) 23/01/52 King's Board, Hillfield Gardens (Formerly Listed as: LONDON ROAD (North side) King's Board in the grounds of Hillside Gardens)

GV II*

Gazebo. In its present form probably late C18; built originally in the grounds of the former Marybone House near the Quay re-using C14 arcading and other architectural details said to have come from the King's Board, a medieval market house which stood in the centre of Westgate Street and demolished in 1780; moved from Marybone House to a garden in Barton Street, then in mid C19 to the grounds of Tibberton Court; given to the City of Gloucester in 1936 and re-erected as a feature in Hillfield Gardens. Limestone ashlar with moulded and carved details, flat composition roof. PLAN: a small decagonal building; on the south side an open arcade of five bays standing on a stone base above three stone steps set in a semi-circle which stop against short wing walls to east and west; the north side is a solid wall of plain ashlar. EXTERIOR: the reset C14 arcade has slender moulded piers set on moulded bases and cinqefoiled arches with trefoiled sub-cusps; the angles of the decagon occur at the crowns of the arches where the joints have been re-cut to fit, each double spandrel is a single stone crisply carved in bas-relief with a scene of Christ's ministry: the Entry into Jerusalem, the Last Supper, the scourging of Christ, the Resurrection and the Flagellation; above the arcade a crowning cornice with a hollow roll into which four fleurons above each double spandrel and two above each of the responding end spandrels have been inserted; the cornice and the rear wall a low crenellated parapet with a continuous moulded weathering. HISTORY: the King's Board is reputed to have been given to the City of Gloucester by King Richard II and was used as a butter market in the late 16th century. There is also a (doubtful) tradition that it was used as a preaching pulpit. The site of this building in Westgate Street was examined in a restrictive survey by the Gloucester Archaeological Unit in 1991 when the foundations of a rectangular building were identified in the same position as an arcaded market building shown in Kip's

View of Gloucester of 1712. (Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Arch. Society: Medland MH: The So-called King's Board at Tibberton Court near Gloucester: 339-343).

Listing NGR: SO8425618976

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Legacy System number:: 472315
Legacy System:: LBS

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Medland, M H, 'Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Architectural Society' in The So Called Kings Board At Tibberton Court Near Gloucester, (), 339-343

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.