Bandstand is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1983. Bandstand.
Bandstand
- WRENN ID
- odd-ashlar-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wigan
- Constituency
- Wigan MP: Lisa Nandy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1983
- Type
- Bandstand
- Address
- Bandstand, Mesnes Park
- OS grid reference
- SD 578 064
- Coordinates
- 53.55275, -2.63806
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The bandstand, manufactured in 1891 by George Smith and Co of the Sun Foundry in Glasgow, was likely installed in 1891 or 1892. It features a sandstone plinth, cast-iron columns, and a metal-clad wooden roof, with a ten-sided plan. The structure is single-storey and open-sided, supported by cast-iron columns at the corners that have fluted bases, twisted shafts, and crocket capitals. In 1983, these columns were linked by a circular wooden beam attached to their inner faces, which probably dates from 1927 and replaced earlier glazed timber shuttering. Large pierced spandrel brackets extend from the capitals both laterally and forwards to support the oversailing eaves of a strongly-swept roof, which has a simple corona around a dome topped with a renewed finial. The design originally included pierced balustrades, which are now absent. The interior has a flat boarded ceiling. The bandstand forms a group with The Pavilion.
Local climate
Bandstand sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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