PAIR OF ARCHES AT ENTRANCE TO ROYAL AVENUE FROM MARLBOROUGH LANE

PAIR OF ARCHES AT ENTRANCE TO ROYAL AVENUE FROM MARLBOROUGH LANE, ROYAL VICTORIA PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394752
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:: PAIR OF ARCHES AT ENTRANCE TO ROYAL AVENUE FROM MARLBOROUGH LANE
Statutory Address:: PAIR OF ARCHES AT ENTRANCE TO ROYAL AVENUE FROM MARLBOROUGH LANE, ROYAL VICTORIA PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394752
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: PAIR OF ARCHES AT ENTRANCE TO ROYAL AVENUE FROM MARLBOROUGH LANE
Statutory Address 1:: PAIR OF ARCHES AT ENTRANCE TO ROYAL AVENUE FROM MARLBOROUGH LANE, ROYAL VICTORIA PARK

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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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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Location

Statutory Address:: PAIR OF ARCHES AT ENTRANCE TO ROYAL AVENUE FROM MARLBOROUGH LANE, 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:: ST 74316 65266

Details

ROYAL VICTORIA PARK 656-1/29/1435 (West side) Pair of arches at entrance to Royal Avenue from Marlborough Lane

(Formerly Listed as: VICTORIA PARK Arches at entrance to Royal Avenue from Marlborough Lane) 11/08/72

GV II

Pair of arches over pedestrian entrances to west side of Royal Victoria Park. Mid-C19. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar. Each arch has piers on plinths with circles to centres of recessed panels and paired corbels to inner sides forming shouldered arch. Lintel similar to piers but smaller in scale, above piers small recessed panels flanked by similar corbels supporting wide cornice and blocking course that forms plinth for stone sphinx. Arch to north incised `THE GIFT OF MR REEVES¿, that to south `GIVEN BY I WILLIAMS ESQ.¿: these refer to gift of sphinxes. HISTORY: These form elements in the notable group of entrance arches to the park, but differ in design and perhaps date from those at the south-eastern entrance which were definitely by Davis. No gates are shown in this position upon the early plan of c1829 (repr. In Jackson, p.96). The donor 'Mr Reeves' was probably Charles Reeves who ran the busy Bath masons firm of Reeves and Son: it may well have produced the sphinxes, and perhaps other items of masonry here too. 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: Rupert Gunnis, 'Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851' (rev. ed. c.1966), 317; R Whalley, 'The Royal Victoria Park' in 'Bath History' (1994), 147-169; Neil Jackson, 'Nineteenth Century Bath. Architects and Architecture' (1991), 95-100.

Listing NGR: ST7431665266

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Legacy System number:: 510156
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.