ENTRANCE ARCHWAY AND FLANKING WALLS TO THE ROYAL HIGH SCHOOL

ENTRANCE ARCHWAY AND FLANKING WALLS TO THE ROYAL HIGH SCHOOL, LANSDOWN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394468
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: ENTRANCE ARCHWAY AND FLANKING WALLS TO THE ROYAL HIGH SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: ENTRANCE ARCHWAY AND FLANKING WALLS TO THE ROYAL HIGH SCHOOL, LANSDOWN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394468
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: ENTRANCE ARCHWAY AND FLANKING WALLS TO THE ROYAL HIGH SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: ENTRANCE ARCHWAY AND FLANKING WALLS TO THE ROYAL HIGH SCHOOL, LANSDOWN ROAD

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 ARCHWAY AND FLANKING WALLS TO THE ROYAL HIGH SCHOOL, LANSDOWN ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: ST 74591 66457

Details

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/02/2018

LANSDOWN ROAD (north-east side), Entrance archway and flanking Walls to the Royal High School

(Formerly listed as: Entrance archway and flanking Walls to the Royal School)

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Entrance gateway and flanking walls. c1858. By James Wilson. Quarry faced limestone with ashlar dressings. Gothic style. Main arch has plinth supporting pilaster buttresses with trefoil headed panel and gable above. Die into piers stepped up over three-centred arch carrying royal achievement of arms at apex (this was presumably added to gateway when it became Royal School for Daughters of Army Officers in 1865). Gateway flanked by paired colonnettes with stiff leaf capitals on either side, arch itself has three orders and dripmould with portrait stops. Modern wrought iron gates. Smaller footgate to right with three centred arch and stepped head with moulded coping. Castellated wall runs to either side of gateways, for about fifty metres above gate and rather less below. Rest of rubble wall onto Lansdown Road and also return onto Charlcombe Lane as well as at rear of school fronting Richmond Road is not of special interest.

SOURCES: (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 215; Jackson N: Nineteenth Century Bath - Architects and Architecture: Bath: 1991-: 219).

Listing NGR: ST7459166457

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 509868
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.