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Piers, Gates, Railings and Plinths to Hedgemead Park

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

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.3877 / 51°23'15"N

Longitude: -2.3613 / 2°21'40"W

OS Eastings: 374953

OS Northings: 165469

OS Grid: ST749654

Mapcode National: GBR 0Q9.XH3

Mapcode Global: VH96M.1D01

Plus Code: 9C3V9JQQ+3F

Entry Name: Piers, Gates, Railings and Plinths to Hedgemead Park

Listing Date: 15 October 2010

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1394680

English Heritage Legacy ID: 510083

ID on this website: 101394680

Location: Hedgemead Park, Walcot, 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

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Description


BELVEDERE
(East side)

Piers, gates, railings and
plinths to Hedgemead Park

GV II

Piers, gates, railings and plinths at the western entrance to Hedgemead Park between Valley View House and Hartley House (qv). c1900.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar and wrought iron.
EXTERIOR: Attached to the flanking houses, and serving as a gatepier to Valley View House are piers with dentil cornices and lintel friezes below bold ogee pyramidal caps with flat square pinnacles. Bull-nosed plinths support railings with turned finials. Open square railed gatepiers have scrolled tops and urn finials; double gates have scrolls to horizontal upper and central bands and scrolled central vertical panels.
HISTORY: Hedgemead Park opened c1900 following landslips.
SOURCES: R. Gilding, Historic Public Parks Bath (Avon Gardens Trust 1997), 35-39.

Listing NGR: ST7495365469

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