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Latitude: 56.4722 / 56°28'19"N
Longitude: -2.9508 / 2°57'2"W
OS Eastings: 341523
OS Northings: 731521
OS Grid: NO415315
Mapcode National: GBR ZD2.QV
Mapcode Global: WH7RB.NL26
Plus Code: 9C8VF2CX+VM
Entry Name: Pavilion, Baxter Park, Dundee
Listing Name: Baxter Park Pavilion, Steps, Boundary Walls and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 12 July 1963
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 361135
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB24992
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dundee, Baxter Park, Pavilion
ID on this website: 200361135
Location: Dundee
County: Dundee
Town: Dundee
Electoral Ward: Maryfield
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: Pavilion
G H Stokes 1859-63, layout Sir Joseph Paxton. Italian Renaissance pavilion.
S ELEVATION: 5-bay open loggia with consoled keyblocked arches resting on clusters of 4 Roman Doric columns, coupled in dead elevation; extends as Venetian features into square corner pavilions which have coupled Ionic pilasters at angles and plain blind arches on E and W fronts glazing now boarded over. Balustraded parapets, end pavilions rise higher with conical finials on sculptured plinths.
Arcaded back wall and lower outshots in re-entrant agnles. Central niche in loggia.
Steps on axis, dies bearing cast-iron urns top and bottom. Balustrade missing. Low coped boundary walls to park, railings missing except at Wortley Place. Square ashlar gatepiers to Arbroath Road. Cast iron over-arch. Gates missing.
Niche contained marble statue of Sir David Baxter by Sir John Steel, 1863, now in McManus Galleries. Sir David Baxter bart of Kilmaron (of Baxter Brothers, Dens Works) and his two sisters presented the 37 acre Baxter park to the city, the cost said to be about $50,000. It opened on 9 September 1863.
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