GATES AND PIERS AT ENTRANCE TO HEDGMEAD PARK

GATES AND PIERS AT ENTRANCE TO HEDGMEAD PARK, HEDGEMEAD PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395994
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: GATES AND PIERS AT ENTRANCE TO HEDGMEAD PARK
Statutory Address:: GATES AND PIERS AT ENTRANCE TO HEDGMEAD PARK, HEDGEMEAD PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395994
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: GATES AND PIERS AT ENTRANCE TO HEDGMEAD PARK
Statutory Address 1:: GATES AND PIERS AT ENTRANCE TO HEDGMEAD PARK, HEDGEMEAD PARK

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:: GATES AND PIERS AT ENTRANCE TO HEDGMEAD PARK, HEDGEMEAD 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:: ST7499765458

Details

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 July 2023 to add “(qv)” to mention of adjacent list entry and to reformat text to current standards.

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HEDGEMEAD PARK

Gates and piers at entrance to Hedgemead Park

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Gates and piers. Circa 1889. Possibly designed by TB Silcock.

MATERIALS: Cast iron gates, piers and railings, ashlar plinth. The double gates have long/short railings rising through two horizontal rails below centre, two horizontal rails to tops have short infills between, alternate vertical railings have fleur-de-lys heads. Centre of each gate elaborate vertical scrolled panels with urn finials, sides similar half scrolls. Square section piers have moulded bases, panelled shafts, wide cornices, roll-edged block tops supporting flattened spherical balls with spike to each of four sides and smaller ball finial. Adjacent plinth (qv) has substantial bull-nosed stone coping and steps down in sections, to left of each level stage are vertical panels similar to those at the centre of each gate.

HISTORY: Hedgemead Park was laid out by TB Silcock in 1889. Opened as public garden because landslips had made ground unsuitable for building.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 511404
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gilding, R, Historic Public Parks. Avon, (1997), 35-39

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.