THE UPPER AND LOWER TERRACE OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE GARDENS

THE UPPER AND LOWER TERRACE OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE GARDENS, CRYSTAL PALACE PARK SE19

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1064352
Date first listed:: 01-Sep-1953
List Entry Name:: THE UPPER AND LOWER TERRACE OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE GARDENS
Statutory Address:: THE UPPER AND LOWER TERRACE OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE GARDENS, CRYSTAL PALACE PARK SE19

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1064352
Date first listed:: 01-Sep-1953
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: THE UPPER AND LOWER TERRACE OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE GARDENS
Statutory Address 1:: THE UPPER AND LOWER TERRACE OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE GARDENS, CRYSTAL PALACE PARK SE19

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:: THE UPPER AND LOWER TERRACE OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE GARDENS, CRYSTAL PALACE PARK SE19

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Bromley (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 34020 71113

Details

CRYSTAL PALACE PARK, PENGE, SE19 1. 4407 The Upper and Lower Terrace of the Crystal Palace Gardens (Formerly Listed under Crystal Palace Parade) TQ 37 SW 4/208 1.9.53.

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2. The Crystal Palace, designed by Sir Joseph Paxton for the Great Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park, was afterwards taken down and re-erected here in 1852-4 on the site of Penge Place. The building itself was burned down in 1936, but the 2 terraces of the formal garden in front of it survive. They were designed by Paxton at the time of the re-erection. Each terrace consists of a series of round-headed arches containing semi-circular semi- domed niches arranged in groups of 3 with taller pilasters between the groups carried up into the balustrade above which is of similar pattern of narrow round-headed arches, the taller pilasters topped by vases or statues. Flights of steps lead down from each terrace at intervals. The space between the terraces was laid out with fountains and statues.

Listing NGR: TQ3402071113

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Legacy System number:: 358428
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.