Sign Post and Three Lamps, at Intersection With Wells Road Sign Post at Three Lamps, at Intersection With Bath Road
SIGN POST AND THREE LAMPS, AT INTERSECTION WITH WELLS ROAD, BATH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1203998
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Sign Post and Three Lamps, at Intersection With Wells Road Sign Post at Three Lamps, at Intersection With Bath Road
- Statutory Address:
- SIGN POST AND THREE LAMPS, AT INTERSECTION WITH WELLS ROAD, BATH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1203998
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Sign Post and Three Lamps, at Intersection With Wells Road Sign Post at Three Lamps, at Intersection With Bath Road
- Statutory Address 1:
- SIGN POST AND THREE LAMPS, AT INTERSECTION WITH WELLS ROAD, BATH ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- SIGN POST AT THREE LAMPS, AT INTERSECTION WITH BATH ROAD, WELLS 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:
- SIGN POST AND THREE LAMPS, AT INTERSECTION WITH WELLS ROAD, BATH ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- SIGN POST AT THREE LAMPS, AT INTERSECTION WITH BATH ROAD, WELLS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 59896 71857
Details
BRISTOL
ST315971 BATH ROAD, Totterdown 901-1/46/2039 (North side) 08/01/59 Sign post at Three Lamps, at intersection with Wells Road
II*
Finger post. Early C19. Cast-iron column and glass lamps. Fluted Doric column and square entablature with triglyphs, carrying 2 finger posts with pointing hands and pierced lettering, indicating BATH and WELLS. Restored c1985 with 3 glass balloon lamps. Known familiarly as the Bishop of Bath and Wells. '...one of the finest early C19 signposts in England' (Pevsner). (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 456).
Listing NGR: ST5989471868
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378922
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958), 456
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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