Pair of Lamp Standards, The Bancroft

Opposite Royal Shakespeare Theatre, The Bancroft, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, CV37 6NT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1440313
Date first listed:: 17-Nov-2016
List Entry Name:: Pair of Lamp Standards, The Bancroft
Statutory Address:: Opposite Royal Shakespeare Theatre, The Bancroft, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, CV37 6NT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1440313
Date first listed:: 17-Nov-2016
List Entry Name:: Pair of Lamp Standards, The Bancroft
Location Description:
Statutory Address 1:: Opposite Royal Shakespeare Theatre, The Bancroft, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, CV37 6NT

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Opposite Royal Shakespeare Theatre, The Bancroft, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, CV37 6NT

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Warwickshire
District:: Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:: Stratford-upon-Avon
National Grid Reference:: SP2034954785, SP2037454773

Summary

Reasons for Designation

The pair of lamp standards designed by Elisabeth Scott, The Bancroft, Stratford-upon-Avon are listed at Grade II for the following reasons:

* Architectural quality: the pair of lamp stands were designed by the noted architect Elisabeth Scott and completed by 1932 in a simple but elegant style which matches that of the theatre building immediately behind them; * Degree of survival: the lamp standards have been little altered and remain in their original positions; * Group value: the lamp stands form a coherent group with the Royal Shakespeare Theatre (listed Grade II*) and also with the numerous other listed buildings which are grouped along Waterside.

History

A fire in 1926 destroyed large parts of the auditorium of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre which had been designed by Dodgshun and Unsworth in 1877. A competition was held in 1928 to design a replacement and Elisabeth Scott's design (Scott, Chesterton and Shepherd) won. The new building, in an Art Deco style, also included elements of the former theatre complex. It was completed in 1932. Elisabeth Scott's design was the first prominent public building in England to be built to the designs of a woman architect. In addition, Scott provided designs for the layout of the landscape to the north of the new theatre, across the area called Bancroft, which were partially implemented, including this pair of lamp standards.

Details

A pair of tall street lamp standards, designed by Elisabeth Scott (of Scott, Chesterton and Shepherd), in association with her design for the new Royal Shakespeare Theatre (then called the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre) and completed in 1932.

MATERIAL & PLAN: each standard has a cast iron stem with a domed metal hood and reflective underside.

DETAILS: the circular stems have a series of offsets, in the manner of an extended telescope. To the top of each is a circular plate which carries the lamps, above which is a faceted, domed metal canopy with a reflective inner surface, which projects the light downwards.

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Pickford, C, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire , (2016), Illus. 124

Legal

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

The listed building(s) is/are shown coloured blue on the attached map. Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’), structures attached to or within the curtilage of the listed building (save those coloured blue on the map) are not to be treated as part of the listed building for the purposes of the Act.