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Latitude: 51.3926 / 51°23'33"N
Longitude: -2.367 / 2°22'1"W
OS Eastings: 374559
OS Northings: 166018
OS Grid: ST745660
Mapcode National: GBR 0Q9.NDB
Mapcode Global: VH96L.X8H7
Plus Code: 9C3V9JVM+35
Entry Name: Archway
Listing Date: 12 June 1950
Last Amended: 15 October 2010
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1394110
English Heritage Legacy ID: 509498
ID on this website: 101394110
LANSDOWN CRESCENT
(North side)
Archway
12/06/50
GV
I
Bridge connecting No.20 Lansdown Crescent and No.1 Lansdown Place West (qqv). Between c1824 and c1830 (see below). By Henry Edmund Goodridge, for William Beckford.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, roof unseen.
EXTERIOR: Balustraded parapet articulated by four-panelled piers crowned by green oxidized copper palms in gadrooned urns, two to centre are larger. Cornice coincides with first floor stringcourse of No.20, as does ground floor platband, between them are three C20 windows in eared and shouldered architraves. Keystone of semi-elliptical arch dies into platband, moulded archivolt to front, impost band continues through the arch to the rear which is similar but plain and of painted ashlar.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
HISTORY: Arch was built to connect two houses in which William Beckford resided when he moved to Bath after the financial crisis which necessitated the sale of Fonthill Abbey in 1822. He initially moved to , No.66 Great Pulteney Street (qv), but before very long bought No.20 Lansdown Crescent and No.1 Lansdown Place West. It is uncertain whether he bought both together, or added No.1 Lansdown Place West, which would then have necessitated the bridge. He is believed to have bought it in order to house his large library. No.1 Lansdown Place West was sold in c1832; he subsequently bought Nos 18 and 19 Lansdown Crescent (qqv) in 1836. He continued to live there until just before his death in 1844. HE Goodridge is the assumed architect because he was building Lansdown Tower for Beckford in 1825-1826. The metal palms are inspired by Beckford's time in Portugal. Listed Grade I as part of an outstanding architectural set piece, with considerable historic interest.
SOURCES: (James Lees-Milne, `William Beckford' (1976), 7-79).
Listing NGR: ST7455966018
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