Retaining Wall With Balustrade to Parade Gardens, and the Vaults Beneath
RETAINING WALL WITH BALUSTRADE TO PARADE GARDENS, AND THE VAULTS BENEATH, NORTH PARADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395807
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Retaining Wall With Balustrade to Parade Gardens, and the Vaults Beneath
- Statutory Address:
- RETAINING WALL WITH BALUSTRADE TO PARADE GARDENS, AND THE VAULTS BENEATH, NORTH PARADE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395807
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1995
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Retaining Wall With Balustrade to Parade Gardens, and the Vaults Beneath
- Statutory Address 1:
- RETAINING WALL WITH BALUSTRADE TO PARADE GARDENS, AND THE VAULTS BENEATH, NORTH PARADE
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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:
- RETAINING WALL WITH BALUSTRADE TO PARADE GARDENS, AND THE VAULTS BENEATH, NORTH PARADE
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 75295 64708
Details
NORTH PARADE Retaining wall with balustrade to Parade Gardens, and the vaults beneath 18/10/95
GV II
Retaining wall, vaults and balustrade. c1740, balustrade c1932. By John Wood the Elder. MATERIALS: Coursed squared limestone, balustrade ashlar. Also heavy reinforced concrete strapping to top of wall that balustrade sits on. EXTERIOR: Wall fronting gardens stands on gently sloping ground with almost full storey height at river end (14), each house has arched doorway as private entry into garden, and square headed window lighting vault, although some alterations and some are blocked. Balustrade in panels with piers between, capped alternately by vases or iron openwork lamp standards with lamps. HISTORY: Part of overall changes to walling of Parade Gardens, continuing scheme first begun by CE Davis in c1895 (qv Grand Parade) and completed following demolition of Royal Literary and Scientific Institution (once Harrison's Rooms, or the Lower Rooms) on Terrace Walk in 1932. In Wood's scheme balustrade were topped by obelisks, shown in Thomas Malton's engravings, while Davis's scheme had different lamp standards and vases as shown in contemporary photographs. SOURCES: Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bath: Bath: 1980-: 134-138; Lees-Milne J and Ford D: Images of Bath: London: 1982-; The Bath Chronicle: Images of Bath: Derby: 1994-; Mowl T and Earnshaw B: John Wood Architect of Obsession: Bath: 1988-: 145.
Listing NGR: ST7529564708
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 511216
- 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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