Pair of Vases Flanking Bandstand
PAIR OF VASES FLANKING BANDSTAND, ROYAL VICTORIA PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394750
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Pair of Vases Flanking Bandstand
- Statutory Address:
- PAIR OF VASES FLANKING BANDSTAND, ROYAL VICTORIA PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394750
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Pair of Vases Flanking Bandstand
- Statutory Address 1:
- PAIR OF VASES FLANKING BANDSTAND, ROYAL VICTORIA PARK
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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:
- PAIR OF VASES FLANKING BANDSTAND, ROYAL VICTORIA PARK
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:
- ST7442065207
Details
656-1/29/1434
05/08/75
ROYAL VICTORIA PARK
Pair of Vases flanking Bandstand
(Formerly Listed as:
VICTORIA PARK
Pair of Vases flanking Bandstand)
GV
II
Pair of large marble vases flanking bandstand (qv). Carrara marble vases set within Portland stone aedicules. Carved laurel wreaths with ribbon ties to bases encircling letter `J' on southern face. Bases of vases and bases of looped handles to each side ornamented with acanthus leaf carving. Each vase stands on block base on a plain solid stone plinth, set within an aedicule with simplified columns at each angle, carrying a canopy with block top, coved cornice, and inscribed frieze.
HISTORY: Inscription reads: "These vases, the gift of Napoleon Buonaparte to the Empress Josephine (1805) were brought from France after the Peninsular War by Col. Page and bequeathed by the will of Joseph Fuller Esq. of 19 Lansdown Crescent (1874) to the Royal Victoria Park. They were restored and protected by Capt. Huth (1914)." These vases, possibly designed by Percier and Fontaine, were probably produced at the Carrara marble manufactory. Their provenance is remarkable. They have undergone recent conservation, especially to the handles. Victoria Park was laid out in 1830 on the former Barton Fields, an area of common land and was opened by the Duchess of Kent with her daughter, Princess Victoria, on October 23rd 1830. It was the country's first municipal park.
SOURCES: Bath History: Whalley R: The Royal Victoria Park: Bath: 1994-: 147-169.
Listing NGR: ST7442065207
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510154
- 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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