Four bollards at Victoria Parade
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1456757
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-2018
- List Entry Name:
- Four bollards at Victoria Parade
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1456757
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-2018
- List Entry Name:
- Four bollards at Victoria Parade
- Location Description:
- Located at either end of Victoria Parade in Leicester, LE1 5FG.
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Leicester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK5877104524
Summary
Four bollards at Victoria Parade, dated 1848, manufactured by Cort and Bell of Leicester.
Reasons for Designation
The four cast-iron bollards on Victoria Parade, dated 1848, manufactured by Cort and Bell of Leicester, are listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* as simple but well-executed street furniture, bearing a date and the name of the local manufacturer
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Historic interest:
* as a surviving group at each end of Victoria Parade cast by the principal foundry in Leicester at the time.
Group value:
* the strong geographic group value with listed buildings on Market Place, notably numbers 69 and 71 (List entry 1073996)
History
The four bollards, dated 1848, are believed to be contemporary with the opening of Victoria Parade in the same year. It appears that Victoria Parade originally had six bollards, three at each of the Market Place (south-west) and Gallowtree Gate (north-east) ends, however only four bollards now survive. A postcard drawing of Cheapside in 1852 shows three bollards at the Market Place end, and the 1886 Ordnance Survey (OS) map confirms the presence of three bollards at each end of Victoria Parade. A photograph taken in 1974 shows four bollards at the Market Place end, and one central bollard at the Gallowtree Gate end, corresponding with OS map evidence from this period. One of the four bollards at the Market Place end was removed around 2000, when the area was repaved.
The Britannia Foundry was established by ironmonger James Cort at the public wharf at Belgrave Gate in Leicester in 1799, and was the principal foundry of the town during the first half of the C19. James and Benjamin Cort took Joseph Bell into partnership, and commenced manufacture as Cort and Bell. The company began to struggle by the end of the 1840s, and was merged with the Rutland Foundry in the 1850s.
Details
Four cast-iron bollards, dated 1848, manufactured by Cort and Bell of Leicester.
Four cast-iron bollards, each taking the form of a square-plan obelisk on a base. The date of manufacture ‘1848’ and name of the foundry ‘CORT & BELL / LEICESTER’ are cast on the front elevation of each bollard. The bollards stand at either end of Victoria Parade, with three at the south-west end facing Market Place, and one at the north-east end facing Gallowtree Gate.
Sources
Books and journals
Rimmington, G T, Leicester Foundries, 1845-1914 in Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol. 40, (1965), 63-68
Rimmington, G T, Leicester Foundries in the Early Nineteenth Century in Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol. 35, (1959), 63-67
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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