Shelter on Queen's Promenade, Blackpool

Promenade shelter of 1904, relocated between 1924 and 1930, by the Lion Foundry Company of Kirkintilloch, near Glasgow.

MATERIALS: cast-iron columns, brackets, roof beams and gutters with wooden screens, and glass-reinforced plastic roof.

DESCRIPTION: of rectangular plan, with slim columns at the corners and centres of the long sides (most bearing Lions foundry marks), linked by screens at each end, and cruciform central screens. The round columns have scroll capitals and each has three sweeping foliate brackets supporting the beams of the roof. The emphatically-ribbed double-swept roof has a prominent ridge crest. Ogee gutters above the eaves cornice discharge via the foot of the corner columns. The screens have tongue-and-groove lower panels and (now unglazed) upper glazing panels (partially boarded in plywood).