The Pavilion
The Pavilion, Mesnes Park
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384494
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Pavilion
- Statutory Address:
- The Pavilion, Mesnes Park
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384494
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Pavilion
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Pavilion, Mesnes Park
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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 Pavilion, 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 57904 06409
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
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WIGAN
MESNES PARK
The Pavilion
11/07/83
GV
II
Park pavilion, now cafe. Probably 1880; altered, refurbished 2010. Yellow brick, some red brick, red and yellow terracotta tiles, cast-iron porch, slate roofs. Octagonal plan plus polygonal wings to alternate sides (including open porch to south-east side). Eclectic style.
EXTERIOR: two storeys with tall one-storey wings, plus a very large lantern to the centre; yellow brick ground floor on red brick plinth, red brick first floor with string course, parapet with facing of terracotta floral tiles and stone coping; glazed lantern carried on cast-iron columns. The four-window cardinal sides have square-headed windows at ground floor (doorway in west and north sides) and round-headed windows arcaded at first floor. The south-east side has a tall five-sided open porch of twisted cast-iron columns with foliated open-work brackets forming decorative spandrels, protecting a square-headed doorway with a tympanum of terracotta tiles (doors altered); the other three sides have five-sided wings with round-headed windows. The lantern, carried on twisted cast-iron columns with crocket capitals, has six tall round-headed lights in each side, and a strongly-swept roof in two stages, with louvres between these and a weather vane finial.
INTERIOR: supporting cast-iron columns panelled at ground floor, exposed at first floor.
Forms group with Bandstand (qv) to west and with Powell monument (qv) to south east.
The lantern, internal columns and entrance canopy were manufactured by Walter MacFarlane and Co of the Saracen Foundry, Glasgow.
Listing NGR: SD5790406409
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484928
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
Scottish Ironwork Foundation website, accessed 23/04/21 from https://ironworks.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-002-000-609-C&searchdb=ironworks_scran&scache=10uvs16lfu
Scottish Ironwork Foundation website, accessed 23/04/21 from https://ironworks.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-002-001-273-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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