Gunpost Near the Junction With City Road
GUNPOST NEAR THE JUNCTION WITH CITY ROAD, BRITANNIA WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391700
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-2006
- List Entry Name:
- Gunpost Near the Junction With City Road
- Statutory Address:
- GUNPOST NEAR THE JUNCTION WITH CITY ROAD, BRITANNIA WALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391700
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-2006
- List Entry Name:
- Gunpost Near the Junction With City Road
- Statutory Address 1:
- GUNPOST NEAR THE JUNCTION WITH CITY ROAD, BRITANNIA WALK
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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:
- GUNPOST NEAR THE JUNCTION WITH CITY ROAD, BRITANNIA WALK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Hackney (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 32642 82723
Details
735/0/10206 BRITANNIA WALK 13-JUL-06 (West side) Gunpost near the junction with City Road
II Cast iron gun-post, early-mid C19, of a typical design in its original location.
Inscribed on the plinth is: "ST L / MIDDLESEX / No. 109". It is likely that the illegible character was an S, making the first line "St L S", the shorthand for St Leonard's Shoreditch used on several of the other gun-posts in the area. This gun-post marks the boundary of the parish of St Leonard's Shoreditch, a grade I listed church of 1736 by George Dance the Elder.
HISTORY: Following the end of the Napoleonic Wars many cannons were used as bollards, mostly appearing on the streets of London. These cannon-bollards inspired the design of this gun-post, and the others in the area which mark the boundary of the parish of St Leonard's Shoreditch. Parish boundaries have now been superseded but from the medieval period until the C20 they were the principal administrative units of government, used, for example, for the distribution of social welfare and in official records.
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: This cast iron gun-post dates from the early-mid C19 and marks the boundaries of the parish of St Leonard's Shoreditch. Gun-post boundary markers are an interesting reminder of this historical division of land and for this the gun-post near the junction of City Road and Britannia Walk, which survives in its original location, is of special historic interest. This gun-post is also of architectural special interest as a surviving fragment of the early-mid C19 streetscape, in a design inspired by the cannons used in the the Napoleonic Wars.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 495971
- 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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