Bandstand
Bandstand, Mesnes Park
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384492
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Bandstand
- Statutory Address:
- Bandstand, Mesnes Park
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- Date:
- 2005-04-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/14365/12
- Rights:
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384492
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Bandstand
- Statutory Address 1:
- Bandstand, Mesnes Park
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:
- Bandstand, Mesnes Park
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wigan (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 57825 06424
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 28 April 2021 to amend the description, reformat the text to current standards and add references to selected sources
SD50NE
24-1/2/42
WIGAN
MESNES PARK
Bandstand
11/07/83
GV
II
Bandstand, manufactured 1891 by George Smith and Co of the Sun Foundry, Glasgow and probably installed in 1891 or 1892. Sandstone plinth, cast-iron columns, metal-clad wooden roof. Ten-sided plan. Single-storey, open-sided; cast-iron columns at the angles with fluted bases, twisted shafts and crocket capitals (in 1983 linked by a circular wooden beam attached to the inner faces, probably dating from 1927 and replacing earlier glazed timber shuttering); large pierced spandrel brackets springing from the capitals both laterally and forwards to carry the oversailing eaves of a strongly-swept roof which has a simple corona round a dome with renewed finial. The design’s pierced balustrades are absent.
INTERIOR has flat boarded ceiling.
Forms group with The Pavilion (qv)
Listing NGR: SD5782506424
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484926
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Rabbitts, P, Bandstands: Pavilions for music, entertainment and leisure, (2018), 201
Websites
Scottish Ironwork Foundation website, accessed 23/04/21 from https://ironworks.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-002-000-204-C&searchdb=ironworks_scran&scache=10uvs16lfu
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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