Railings, Gate Piers and Gate to Burnley College Adult Education Centre

RAILINGS, GATE PIERS AND GATE TO BURNLEY COLLEGE ADULT EDUCATION CENTRE, BANK PARADE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1022621
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1977
List Entry Name:
Railings, Gate Piers and Gate to Burnley College Adult Education Centre
Statutory Address:
RAILINGS, GATE PIERS AND GATE TO BURNLEY COLLEGE ADULT EDUCATION CENTRE, BANK PARADE
Railings & gateway to grounds of former grammar school. They were probably made, 1873, to designs by William Waddington.
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Date:
2005-10-19
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1022621
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1977
Date of most recent amendment:
19-Nov-1997
List Entry Name:
Railings, Gate Piers and Gate to Burnley College Adult Education Centre
Statutory Address 1:
RAILINGS, GATE PIERS AND GATE TO BURNLEY COLLEGE ADULT EDUCATION CENTRE, BANK PARADE

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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.

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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Location

Statutory Address:
RAILINGS, GATE PIERS AND GATE TO BURNLEY COLLEGE ADULT EDUCATION CENTRE, BANK PARADE

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
Burnley (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SD 84216 33026

Details

BURNLEY

SD8433SW BANK PARADE 906-1/10/14 (East side) 29/09/77 Railings, gate piers and gate to Burnley College Adult Education Centre (Formerly Listed as: BANK PARADE (East side) Railings and gateway to the Old Grammar School)

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Railings and gateway to grounds of former grammar school. Probably 1873. By William Waddington. Low sandstone rubble wall with chamfered coping, cast-iron railings and gates. Bounding the west, north and parts of the east and south sides of a rounded-triangular plot. Opposite the doorway to the school is a pair of simple monolithic Gothic-style gate piers, and pyramidal tops with brattished ornament; and gates with simple cylindrical bars and dog-bars, both sets with circular medallion finials which have Tudor-rose faces. The ranges of railings to left and right of the gateway are in matching style; but those round the triangular garden to the north of the school have spike finials and spear-head standards. Forms part of group with former grammar school (Burnley College Adult Education Centre (qv)).



Listing NGR: SD8421633026

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Legacy System number:
466991
Legacy System:
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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.

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