Gate Piers and Gates to Drive at Prior Park
GATE PIERS AND GATES TO DRIVE AT PRIOR PARK, RALPH ALLEN DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394606
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Gate Piers and Gates to Drive at Prior Park
- Statutory Address:
- GATE PIERS AND GATES TO DRIVE AT PRIOR PARK, RALPH ALLEN DRIVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394606
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Gate Piers and Gates to Drive at Prior Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATE PIERS AND GATES TO DRIVE AT PRIOR PARK, RALPH ALLEN DRIVE
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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:
- GATE PIERS AND GATES TO DRIVE AT PRIOR PARK, RALPH ALLEN DRIVE
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 76023 63037
Details
RALPH ALLEN DRIVE 656-1/57/1361 (East side) 11/08/72
Gate Piers and gates to Drive at Prior Park
(Formerly Listed as: RALPH ALLEN DRIVE Gate posts to Drive at Prior Park)
GV II
Pair of gate piers with gates. Probably by John Wood the Elder, c1740, but see below. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, wrought and cast iron. Rusticated piers approx 1.2m square and 4.5m high, on moulded base partially concealed by rise in surrounding levels, with wide moulded cappings and double blocking course carrying very large, horizontally moulded, urns. Outer face of piers inscribed `PRIOR PARK¿ and `COLLEGE¿. Iron gates hung to stiles with modelled consoles, and have concave top rail, with twisted main and dog bars. HISTORY: These are the middle pair of the three pairs marking entries into the Prior Park estate off Ralph Allen Drive. The precise genesis of these piers in unclear. They are identical with those at south end of Ralph Allen Drive (qv), at junction with North Road, but the entrance they presently flank was only formed in 1836 as part of the works undertaken for Bishop Baines and overseen by H.E. Goodridge: no entrance is shown on Thorpe and Overton's survey of c1762 in this position. They may well have been brought from elsewhere on the estate, or are possibly 1830s replicas of the c1740 originals. The piers are notable for the size of the urns which demonstrated the quality of Bath stone available from Ralph Allen's quarries and its ability to be worked on a massive scale. SOURCE: Gillian Clarke, `Prior Park. A Compleat Landscape¿ (Bath 1987), 66.
Listing NGR: ST7602363037
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510005
- 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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