ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO MESNES PARK

ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO MESNES PARK, MESNES PARK TERRACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1384497
Date first listed:: 08-Dec-1999
List Entry Name:: ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO MESNES PARK
Statutory Address:: ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO MESNES PARK, MESNES PARK TERRACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1384497
Date first listed:: 08-Dec-1999
List Entry Name:: ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO MESNES PARK
Statutory Address 1:: ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO MESNES PARK, MESNES PARK TERRACE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO MESNES PARK, MESNES PARK TERRACE

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 58113 06214

Details

WIGAN

SD5806SW MESNES PARK TERRACE 24-1/6/47 (North side) Entrance gateway to Mesnes Park

GV II

Gate piers and gates forming entrance to park. Dated 1878. Sandstone ashlar gate piers, cast-iron gates. Square piers, the inner pair banded and with pulvinated friezes, moulded cornices and large ball finials, the outer piers plain with moulded cornices and blocking courses. Double gates to the centre, with twisted dogbars and elaborate openwork with Jacobean motifs, and in the centre of each a roundel with Wigan shield and date 1878; pedestrian side gates in similar style.

Listing NGR: SD5811306214

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 484931
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.