BANDSTAND

Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1246337
Date first listed:
23-Apr-2001
Statutory Address:
BANDSTAND, MORRAB GARDENS

Map

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Location

Statutory Address:
BANDSTAND, MORRAB GARDENS

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Penzance
National Grid Reference:
SW 47215 29942

Details

PENZANCE

SW4729 MORRAB GARDENS 866/7/10016 Bandstand 23-APR-01

II



Bandstand. Circa late C19 or early C20. Granite base and cast and wrought-iron superstructure with lead-clad canopy. Octagonal on plan. Rusticated granite base with ornate cast-iron balustrade and slender cast-iron columns with cast-iron spandrels and brackets to eaves, supporting a hipped canopy with ornate open-work wrought-iron cage-design finial and wrought-iron cresting over the eaves. Iron steps on east side. Morrab Gardens [on Register of Parks and Gardens] were created in the former grounds of Morrab House [listed grade II], after a competition to design public gardens, held by Penzance Corporation and won by Reginald Upcher of London in 1889.

Listing NGR: SW4721529942

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
487328
Legacy System:
LBS

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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