Railings Round Central Garden
RAILINGS ROUND CENTRAL GARDEN, WILMINGTON SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195789
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Railings Round Central Garden
- Statutory Address:
- RAILINGS ROUND CENTRAL GARDEN, WILMINGTON SQUARE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195789
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Railings Round Central Garden
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAILINGS ROUND CENTRAL GARDEN, WILMINGTON SQUARE
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:
- RAILINGS ROUND CENTRAL GARDEN, WILMINGTON SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Islington (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 31197 82542
Details
TQ3182NW
635-1/68/909
ISLINGTON
WILMINGTON SQUARE
Railings round central garden
29/09/72
GV
II
Railings. 1819-1841. Cast iron. To perimeter of central garden square. Spear-headed bars with pineapple finials to standards. Wilmington Square was created from the Earls of Northampton's Spa Fields Estate, which in 1817 the ninth Earl assigned to his heir Lord Compton. The subsequent building in Wilmington Square was one of London's first post-Waterloo developments. Progress was piecemeal and for financial reasons the square was reduced in depth and thus became a backwater on the fringes of estates.
(The Squares of Islington: Cosh, M: The Squares of Islington Part 1: Finsbury and Clerkenwell: Islington: 1990: 93-98).
Listing NGR: TQ3119782542
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 369438
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cosh, M, The Squares of Islington in Finsbury and Clerkenwell, Vol. 1, (1990), 93-98
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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