WALL, RAILINGS AND GATE TO THE WEST OF THE KENNET AND AVON CANAL

WALL, RAILINGS AND GATE TO THE WEST OF THE KENNET AND AVON CANAL, SYDNEY GARDENS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395292
Date first listed:: 14-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: WALL, RAILINGS AND GATE TO THE WEST OF THE KENNET AND AVON CANAL
Statutory Address:: WALL, RAILINGS AND GATE TO THE WEST OF THE KENNET AND AVON CANAL, SYDNEY GARDENS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395292
Date first listed:: 14-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: WALL, RAILINGS AND GATE TO THE WEST OF THE KENNET AND AVON CANAL
Statutory Address 1:: WALL, RAILINGS AND GATE TO THE WEST OF THE KENNET AND AVON CANAL, SYDNEY GARDENS

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.

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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:: WALL, RAILINGS AND GATE TO THE WEST OF THE KENNET AND AVON CANAL, SYDNEY GARDENS

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 75858 65334

Details

SYDNEY GARDENS 656-1/32/1649 (West side) Wall, railings and gate to the west of the Kennet and Avon Canal

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Wall, railings and gate. c1800, but with subsequent restorations. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar wall, cast iron railings and gate. EXTERIOR: Plain coped retaining wall approx 2m high and 30m long between two footbridges (qv) sweeps down in quadrants at centre to each side of elaborate pedestrian gate of geometric design with ovals to horizontal central panel and diagonal bars to three panels to top and base. To each side quadrant-shaped spaces have matching cast iron panels. Horizontal upper rails curve up at sides and panels have cast iron ball finials. Approx 3m to east, across footpath along verge of Kennet and Avon Canal, three similar panels of railing with swept supports to rear. HISTORY: John Rennie laid out the course of the canal here in 1796 and construction was underway by 1799. When completed, this intrusion, through careful design insisted upon by the Proprietors of Sydney Gardens, added to the visual charms of Sydney Gardens. SOURCES: Brenda Snaddon, 'The Last Promenade. Sydney Gardens, Bath' (2000), 19-20.

Listing NGR: ST7585865334

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Legacy System number:: 510703
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.