Jaipur Gate in Gardens of No 19
JAIPUR GATE IN GARDENS OF NO 19, NEW CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187580
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Jaipur Gate in Gardens of No 19
- Statutory Address:
- JAIPUR GATE IN GARDENS OF NO 19, NEW CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187580
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Jaipur Gate in Gardens of No 19
- Statutory Address 1:
- JAIPUR GATE IN GARDENS OF NO 19, NEW CHURCH ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- JAIPUR GATE IN GARDENS OF NO 19, NEW CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ2816904899
Details
TQ2804NW
579-1/16/150
HOVE
NEW CHURCH ROAD, Aldrington
(North side)
Jaipur Gate in gardens of No 19
II
Naqqakhana or drum platform. Built 1886, erected here 1926.
Carved in Shekhawati, Rajastan, India, for the Maharajah of
Jaipur who sent it to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition,
South Kensington, 1886. Wooden construction of Bombay teak on
concrete plinth with painted metal dome. Plan:
2-and-a-half-bay loggia, pierced balustrade, surmounted by
central cupola or chatri: no means of access to upper
platform. All surfaces covered with floral and geometrical
carving, entablature with inscriptions in English, Latin and
Sanskrit: "Where there is truth - is victory" (west front),
and "From the East comes light" (east front), deep overhanging
eaves with carved soffit. This is a reproduction in wood of
the drum platforms built of marble or sandstone in Northern
India from which drumrolls or fanfares in honour of rulers or
deities were sounded. It was presented to the Town Corporation
by the Imperial Institute when the adjoining Museum and Art
Gallery, (not included), was opened in 1926.
(Middleton J: A History of Hove: 1979-).
Listing NGR: TQ2816904899
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365600
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Middleton, J, A History of Hove, (1979)
Legal
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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