Gatepiers to Royal Victoria Park
Gatepiers to Royal Victoria Park, Park Lane, Bath
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1406082
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-2011
- List Entry Name:
- Gatepiers to Royal Victoria Park
- Statutory Address:
- Gatepiers to Royal Victoria Park, Park Lane, Bath
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1406082
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-2011
- List Entry Name:
- Gatepiers to Royal Victoria Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- Gatepiers to Royal Victoria Park, Park Lane, Bath
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:
- Gatepiers to Royal Victoria Park, Park Lane, Bath
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:
- ST7374765431
Summary
A pair of gate piers dating from the mid to late-C19. Probably by CE Davis.
Reasons for Designation
* Architectural interest: an elegant set of mid to late-C19 gatepiers attributed to a nationally important architect working particularly in the City of Bath;
* Group value: entrance way to a nationally significant C19 public pleasure park and has group value with other listed structures within the park.
History
Royal Victoria Park (qv) was opened in 1830. The entrance to the carriage drive does not appear on the original plan by Edward Davis, but is marked on the City Surveyor's plan of 1879 when the Corporation bought the Commons from the Freemen, and may well be the design of the City Surveyor, CE Davis.
Details
MATERIALS: limestone ashlar with lower supporters on either side.
DESCRIPTION: piers have plinth, three bands of rustication and a frieze. Supporters hipped to main pier that continues up with inset polished granite panel to front and back. Heavy modillion cornice carries carved heraldic animals, lion and bear, each supporting shield and facing each other across gateway.
Sources
Books and journals
Whalley, R, The Royal Victoria Park , (1994), 147-169
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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