Pair of cast iron bollards

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1474400
Date first listed:: 22-Jun-2021
List Entry Name:: Pair of cast iron bollards

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1474400
Date first listed:: 22-Jun-2021
List Entry Name:: Pair of cast iron bollards
Location Description:: East end of Keppel Row at the junction with Southwark Bridge Road, Southwark, London.

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

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Southwark (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ3225480127

Summary

Pair of bollards. Made for the Clink Paving Commissioners by Messrs Bishop and Co in 1812 as boundary markers. Relocated to their current location at the east end of Keppel Row by 1876.

Reasons for Designation

The two bollards at the eastern end of Keppel Row, dated 1812 and cast for the Clink Paving Commissioners, are listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Architectural interest:

* as early dated examples of this popular form of manufactured bollard/boundary marker, derived from the earlier use of reused cannon in these roles.

Historic interest:

* for the tangible evidence they provide for the history of both the Liberty of the Clink and early-C19 local government in London. Group value:

* they benefit from a strong spatial and functional group value with other examples of this documented set of boundary markers, a number of which are already listed.

History

An Act of 1786 (Local Act, 26 Geo III, c120) was enacted to regulate the ‘paving, cleansing, lighting, and watching the Streets, Lanes, and other public Passages... within the Manor of Southwark, otherwise called The Clink.’ In 1812 the Clink Paving Commissioners ordered 60 cast iron bollards in the shape of cannon from Messrs Bishop and Co to mark the boundary of their jurisdiction. These were augmented in 1813 by a number of actual guns to be used as bollards. The two examples of the Bishop and Co castings at the eastern end of Keppel Row, at the junction with Southwark Bridge Road, were probably moved to this location sometime after the abolition of the commission in 1856 and are shown in situ on the 1:1056 scale Ordnance Survey Map of 1876.

Details

Pair of bollards. Made for the Clink Paving Commissioners by Messrs Bishop and Co in 1812 as boundary markers. Relocated to their current location at the east end of Keppel Row by 1876.

MATERIALS: cast iron.

DESCRIPTION: the two tapering bollards are located at the east end of Keppel Row at the junction of Southwark Bridge Road. They are approximately 1m tall above ground, in the form of cannons. They have a rounded cap in the form of a half-cannonball, moulded muzzle band, lower moulded band and a moulding at the base. Near the top of the northern bollard, to both front and back, is the inscription, cast in relief, ‘CLINK 1812’. On the southern bollard only the dates ‘1812’ remain. The bollards are painted in alternating bands of black and white.

Sources

Books and journals
Godfrey, W H, Roberts, H, Survey of London: Volume 22: Bankside (the parishes of St Saviour and Christchurch Southwark), (1950), 1-8
Websites
Visit Bankside: the Liberty of the Clink, accessed 29 January 2021 from http://www.visitbankside.com/itineraries/liberty-clink

Legal

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