Gallon Steps With 2 Lamp Posts and Walls, Linking Waterside and Kirkgate
GALLON STEPS WITH 2 LAMP POSTS AND WALLS, LINKING WATERSIDE AND KIRKGATE, KIRKGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1149863
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1985
- Statutory Address:
- GALLON STEPS WITH 2 LAMP POSTS AND WALLS, LINKING WATERSIDE AND KIRKGATE, KIRKGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1149863
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1985
- Statutory Address 1:
- GALLON STEPS WITH 2 LAMP POSTS AND WALLS, LINKING WATERSIDE AND KIRKGATE, KIRKGATE
- Statutory Address 2:
- GALLON STEPS WITH 2 LAMP POSTS AND WALLS, LINKING WATERSIDE AND KIRKGATE, WATERSIDE
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GALLON STEPS WITH 2 LAMP POSTS AND WALLS, LINKING WATERSIDE AND KIRKGATE, KIRKGATE
- Statutory Address:
- GALLON STEPS WITH 2 LAMP POSTS AND WALLS, LINKING WATERSIDE AND KIRKGATE, WATERSIDE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Knaresborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 34813 57050
Details
SE 3457
6/202
KNARESBOROUGH
WATERSIDE (north side, off)
Gallon steps, with two lamp posts and walls, linking Waterside and Kirkgate.
GV
II
Steps, flanking walls and lamp posts. Brick, gritstone, cobbles and cast iron. Early C19.
Steps: seven flights, approximately two metres wide. Gritstone slabs over stone and brick core. Some C20 restoration. Cobble platforms between flights.
Walls: coursed gritstone with pointed coping, approximately one metre high on outside. Inner wall is part rubble and part coursed gritstone.
Lamp posts: fluted columns, lanterns restored c1980.
The steps appear to have been named after Richard Gallon, gent, who kept the Nidd pavilion in 1822. They are also recorded as Factory Steps, and the 1851 Ordnance Survey map shows a linen factory built against the cliff face about halfway along their line. The lamp posts were probably first erected when the town was lit by gas in 1824.
W A Atkinson, Knaresborough and its Manor Houses, 1924, p 26. Ordnance Survey, Map of Knaresborough, 5 feet to 1 mile, 1851. White's Directory of Yorkshire, 1822, p 225.
Listing NGR: SE3481357050
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 330872
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Atkinson, W A, Knaresborough and its Manor Houses, (1924), 26
Whites Directory in Yorkshire, (1822), 225
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