Walls, Gate Piers and Gates to Town Hall Gardens
WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES TO TOWN HALL GARDENS, DALTON SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298366
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Walls, Gate Piers and Gates to Town Hall Gardens
- Statutory Address:
- WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES TO TOWN HALL GARDENS, DALTON SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298366
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Walls, Gate Piers and Gates to Town Hall Gardens
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES TO TOWN HALL GARDENS, DALTON SQUARE
- Statutory Address 2:
- WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES TO TOWN HALL GARDENS, GEORGE STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES TO TOWN HALL GARDENS, NELSON STREET
- Statutory Address 4:
- WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES TO TOWN HALL GARDENS, ROBERT STREET
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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:
- WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES TO TOWN HALL GARDENS, DALTON SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES TO TOWN HALL GARDENS, GEORGE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES TO TOWN HALL GARDENS, NELSON STREET
- Statutory Address:
- WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES TO TOWN HALL GARDENS, ROBERT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Lancaster (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 47915 61546
Details
LANCASTER
SD4761NE NELSON STREET 1685-1/7/196 (South side) Walls, gate piers and gates to Town Hall Gardens
GV II
Walls and gateways to the gardens on the east side of the Town Hall. 1908. By Edward Mountford. For Lord Ashton, as part of the scheme for the Town Hall (qv) on Dalton Square. Sandstone ashlar and ironwork. The walls, which extend along Nelson Street from the south-east corner of Dalton Square and then down Robert Street to the corner of the Computer Block (qv) on George Street, have a deep plinth which carries a balustrade of heavy vase balusters between panelled dies. The gateways (on Dalton Square and George Street, immediately to the east of the Town Hall) are similar to each other, with 3 square piers separating the footway from the carriageway which runs along the original alignment of Robert Street. Above a chamfered plinth each pier has 2 plain bands which interrupt moulded vertical panels and is capped by a cornice and blocking course. Between them hang pairs of heavy ornamental gates of cast- and wrought-iron; their central panels are articulated by turned balusters and, at the top, by a panel containing a wreathed shield containing the arms of both the Borough of Lancaster and Lord Ashton, flanked by red roses. Similar gates close off the entrances to the footway and to the Town Hall basement.
Listing NGR: SD4791561546
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383227
- 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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