Cheetham Park Shelter

Park shelter, built 1884.

MATERIALS: cast-iron columns, supporting timber conical roof clad in Welsh and Westmorland slate.

PLAN: hexagonal plan.

The public shelter comprises a hexagonal plan flared conical roof with an apex weather vane, supported on six cast-iron columns. The verge of the roof has timber facia boards with blind arcaded panels, attached to the rafter ends. The roof is clad in alternate bands of plain-cut and fish-scale Westmorland and Welsh slates. The columns have fluted pedestals, round-profile shafts, bowl-shaped capitals decorated with flower motifs and handle brackets; supporting clamp-plates that carry the purlins and principal rafters. The purlins are staged with a moulded cornice set between the rafters. The rafters rise to a braced hexagonal roof structure with a central drop pendant; each panel of the roof has an exposed canted timber board lining.