Victoria Column
VICTORIA COLUMN, ROYAL VICTORIA PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1394775
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Victoria Column
- Statutory Address:
- VICTORIA COLUMN, ROYAL VICTORIA PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1394775
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Victoria Column
- Statutory Address 1:
- VICTORIA COLUMN, ROYAL VICTORIA PARK
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.
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:
- VICTORIA COLUMN, 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 74205 65274
Details
ROYAL VICTORIA PARK 656-1/29/1443 Victoria Column (Formerly Listed as: VICTORIA PARK Victoria Column) 11/08/72
GV II*
Obeslik with tripartite base, set within circular balustrade. Dated 1837. By G.P. Manners, city architect. Triangular section obelisk, approx. 10m high, with flattened arrises, base sweeps out, beneath band of Vitruvian scroll moulding; large triangular plinth (inscribed at top of each facet) with small wreaths to arrises. Thick egg-and-dart cornice surrounds main shaft of plinth. On west side is a low profile relief of the Princess, set within an oak-leaf wreath with fillets; south west and north west facets have square recesses with the crests of Albert (in bronze) and Victoria (in stone). Widened arrises sweep out to form bases of three lions couchant on stepped plinths. Whole enclosed by balustraded circle. Inscribed on east side 'VICTORIA. Her Majesty Queen Victoria married to His Royal Highness PRINCE ALBERT OF SAXE COBURG AND GOTHA February 10 1840'. Inscribed on south-west face 'The Inhabitants and Visitors of Bath to the PRINCESS VICTORIA on the Attainment of her Majority 24th May 1837'. Under his arms is further inscription 'PRINCE CONSORT ALBERT THE GOOD. Born 1819 Died 1861 aged 42'. North-west face inscribed 'Completed October 1837 in the first Year of the Reign of QUEEN VICTORIA. VIVAT REGINA'. Beneath her arms is further inscription 'HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA and EMPRESS OF INDIA. Born May 1819 Died January 1901 aged 81 and Reigned 63 Years'. HISTORY: This memorial was raised to commemorate not the accession, but the coming-of-age of Princess Victoria: it was actually inaugurated on her Coronation Day, 28th June 1838. Of great importance as a key visual incident in Royal Victoria Park, as a striking Neo-classical monument, and as the earliest of the numerous public monuments erected to Queen Victoria. Early designs by Manners included a fountain and the replacement of the lions with dolphins. The design owes something to one of 1827 by Henry Goodridge for a commemorative lamp post, also triangular in plan with sentinel lions (illus. In `Beyond Mr Pulteney¿s Bridge¿ 1987 exhib. Cat., 35). 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; Neil Jackson, 'Nineteenth Century Bath. Architects and Architecture' (1991)
Listing NGR: ST7420565274
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510180
- 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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