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Steps and Lamp Standards at the Royal High School

A Grade II Listed Building in Lansdown, Bath and North East Somerset

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Latitude: 51.397 / 51°23'49"N

Longitude: -2.3654 / 2°21'55"W

OS Eastings: 374671

OS Northings: 166500

OS Grid: ST746665

Mapcode National: GBR 0Q9.8T1

Mapcode Global: VH96L.Y4BX

Plus Code: 9C3V9JWM+QR

Entry Name: Steps and Lamp Standards at the Royal High School

Listing Date: 15 October 2010

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1394470

English Heritage Legacy ID: 509870

ID on this website: 101394470

Location: Beacon Hill, Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, BA1

County: Bath and North East Somerset

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Bath

Traditional County: Somerset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset

Tagged with: Streetlight

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Description


This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/02/2018


LANSDOWN ROAD (North East side),
Steps and lamp standards at the Royal High School

II

Steps and lamp standards. c1858. Possibly part of James Wilson design as School (qv). Dressed stone steps, cast-iron lamp standards. Flight of eight stone steps leading to main school entrance. Flanking low walls with triangular coping and stopped by square blocks at top and bottom. Top blocks are flanked by decorative iron lamp posts, originally for gaslight.

This has strong group value with the school buildings. May be original or may possibly date from extensions and alterations of 1880s.

SOURCES: (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958: 215; Jackson N: Nineteenth Century Bath - Architects and Architecture: Bath: 1991: 219).

Listing NGR: ST7467166500

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