The South Gate and Attached Walls and Piers and Wooden Gates
THE SOUTH GATE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS AND WOODEN GATES, PAVILION BUILDINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380710
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The South Gate and Attached Walls and Piers and Wooden Gates
- Statutory Address:
- THE SOUTH GATE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS AND WOODEN GATES, PAVILION BUILDINGS
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/13312/26
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380710
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The South Gate and Attached Walls and Piers and Wooden Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SOUTH GATE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS AND WOODEN GATES, PAVILION BUILDINGS
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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:
- THE SOUTH GATE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS AND WOODEN GATES, PAVILION BUILDINGS
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:
- TQ 31231 04176
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3104SW PAVILION BUILDINGS
577-1/64/664 (North side)
13/10/52 The South Gate and attached walls,
piers and wooden gates
(Formerly Listed as:
South (Indian) Gate of the Royal
Pavilion)
II
Memorial gateway to Pavilion Gardens. Dated 1921 on east wall.
Designed by Thomas Tyrwhitt. Bath stone. Square in plan with
domed roof; 37 feet high. Archaeologically accurate essay in
the Gujerati style.
4 square piers set on high socles, to which are attached
octagonal columns; 2 volute brackets at each corner support a
roof which consists of 2 stages. The first stage is shallow
and hipped, rising to frieze consisting of a frieze ornamented
with sunflowers and petals, each corner of this frieze
finishing in an upturned, prow-like volute; there follow
architraves, each setting back to form a square base from
which rises a dome crowned by a high pinnacle. Inside, corner
squinches dive into an octagonal cornice with a flat ceiling
above. Side walls and piers close off the road; wooden gates
between panelled piers with ornamented tops.
Inscription on the south face of west wall reads: "This
Gateway is the Gift of India in Commemoration of Her Sons Who
Stricken in the Great War Were tended in the Pavilion in 1914
and 1915". Inscription in the east wall reads: "Dedicated to
the Use of the Inhabitants of Brighton by H.H. the Maharaja of
Patiala on October the 26th, 1921, B. Southall Mayor".
HISTORICAL NOTE: the structure stands near the site of the
first south gate to the Pavilion, completed for William IV on
7 May 1831, to match the North Gate on North Street (qv).
After the estate was purchased in 1851 by the Borough, the
first south gate was demolished to make room for Pavilion
Buildings. An iron gate erected to provide pedestrian access
at that time.
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-: 161N).
Listing NGR: TQ3123104176
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 5 December 2016.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481034
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Carder, T, Encyclopaedia of Brighton, (1990), 161N
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 05/12/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/16850
War Memorials Online, accessed 05/12/2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/107077
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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