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Bandstand, Dunfermline Public Park, St Margarets Drive, Dunfermline

A Category B Listed Building in Dunfermline, Fife

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.0701 / 56°4'12"N

Longitude: -3.451 / 3°27'3"W

OS Eastings: 309767

OS Northings: 687307

OS Grid: NT097873

Mapcode National: GBR 1Y.PJNR

Mapcode Global: WH5QR.YPVH

Plus Code: 9C8R3GCX+2J

Entry Name: Bandstand, Dunfermline Public Park, St Margarets Drive, Dunfermline

Listing Name: St Margaret's Drive, Dunfermline Public Park, Bandstand

Listing Date: 10 July 1998

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 392534

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45589

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Dunfermline, St Margarets Drive, Dunfermline Public Park, Bandstand

ID on this website: 200392534

Location: Dunfermline

County: Fife

Town: Dunfermline

Electoral Ward: Dunfermline Central

Traditional County: Fife

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Description

Walter MacFarlane and Co, Saracen Foundry, Glasgow, 1888. Octagonal ogee-roofed cast-iron bandstand. 3-tier stone base supports 8 Ionic columns; each with leaf-moulded base on fluted pedestal. Hooped balustrade with Vitruvian scroll band; filigreed spandrel brackets above columns (spandrel at entrance has decorative centre shield as keystone). Copper ogee roof with decorative finial.

Statement of Interest

The bandstand was gifted by Louise Carnegie, wife of the Dunfermline-born millionaire, Andrew Carnegie.

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