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Latitude: 53.7532 / 53°45'11"N
Longitude: -2.697 / 2°41'49"W
OS Eastings: 354138
OS Northings: 428758
OS Grid: SD541287
Mapcode National: GBR TB9.BT
Mapcode Global: WH85M.JXYM
Plus Code: 9C5VQ833+76
Entry Name: Belvedere at Junction of Walks at East End of Park
Listing Date: 27 September 1979
Last Amended: 20 December 1991
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1279842
English Heritage Legacy ID: 391877
ID on this website: 101279842
Location: Avenham Park, Avenham, Preston, Lancashire, PR1
County: Lancashire
District: Preston
Electoral Ward/Division: Town Centre
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Preston
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire
Church of England Parish: Preston St John and St George the Martyr
Church of England Diocese: Blackburn
Tagged with: Architectural structure
PRESTON
SD5428NW AVENHAM PARK
941-1/14/6 (East side)
27/09/79 Belvedere at junction of walks at
east end of park
(Formerly Listed as:
AVENHAM PARK
Shelter at east side of Park)
GV II
Gazebo. Built 1865-6. Rendered brick with sandstone as ashlar
facade (painted white), flat roof. Shallow rectangular plan.
Classical style. Single storey, built back-to-earth, 3:1:3
bays, symmetrical, with open arcaded front and ends. The
centre, forming a slightly projected and taller porch
(approached by flight of 9 stone steps), has a large
round-headed arch with set-in Corinthian shafts, moulded
impost bands, and moulded extrados with keystone flanked by
roundels with shields of arms, and a modillioned cornice. The
3-bay side ranges have similar but smaller arches on slender
Corinthian columns and responds with square caps, moulded
cornices with blocking courses; and matching one-bay returned
ends. Interior has blind arcading in rear wall of each side
range. Originally on site now occupied by Derby Monument
(q.v.), dismantled and re-erected on this site c.1873.
Listing NGR: SD5413828758
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