Steps and Lamp Standards at the Royal High School
STEPS AND LAMP STANDARDS AT THE ROYAL HIGH SCHOOL, LANSDOWN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394470
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Steps and Lamp Standards at the Royal High School
- Statutory Address:
- STEPS AND LAMP STANDARDS AT THE ROYAL HIGH SCHOOL, LANSDOWN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394470
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Steps and Lamp Standards at the Royal High School
- Statutory Address 1:
- STEPS AND LAMP STANDARDS AT THE ROYAL HIGH SCHOOL, LANSDOWN ROAD
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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:
- STEPS AND LAMP STANDARDS AT 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 74671 66500
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/02/2018
LANSDOWN ROAD (North East side),
Steps and lamp standards at the Royal High School
II
Steps and lamp standards. c1858. Possibly part of James Wilson design as School (qv). Dressed stone steps, cast-iron lamp standards. Flight of eight stone steps leading to main school entrance. Flanking low walls with triangular coping and stopped by square blocks at top and bottom. Top blocks are flanked by decorative iron lamp posts, originally for gaslight.
This has strong group value with the school buildings. May be original or may possibly date from extensions and alterations of 1880s.
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: ST7467166500
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 509870
- 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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