St Anne'S Pier

LYTHAM ST ANNES

SD32NW SOUTH PROMENADE, St Anne's 621-1/2/114 (South West side) 21/09/73 St Anne's Pier

GV II

Pier. 1885, with additions of 1904 and 1910; altered, and now reduced to about half its original length following a fire c.1978. Cast-iron with wooden deck; shelters and pavilions of cast-iron, wood and glass with metal-clad roofs; entrance pavilion (1910) of red brick with some mock half-timbering and red tiled roof. The main structure consists of 4 parallel rows of cast-iron columns embedded in the beach (an inner and an outer row on each side, inclined inwards), the inner rows linked by segmentally-arched girders with geometrical open work in the spandrels and the outer rows now by C20 latticed girders (and the whole structure now re-inforced by similar C20 girders running close to the original inner girders). The wooden deck is now enclosed along about three-quarters of its remaining length by a modern amusement arcade incorporating an original pair of cantilevered shelters (altered as kiosks) about halfway along. The open deck beyond, which is protected by attractive geometrical cast-iron railings, widens to form 2 hexagonal platforms: the inner carrying a pair of lozenge-shaped pavilions (restoration in progress 1991), and the outer a pair of cantilevered shelters. All these shelters and pavilions have panelled and glazed screen walls and emphatically-swept roofs with tall metal finials. The entrance pavilion is in vernacular-revival style, symmetrical, with a tall 2-storey centre and lower 2-storey side wings; the centre has half-timbering at 1st floor, a projected gabled bay with an oriel and a jettied gable, and an octagonal lantern on the roof; the wings have hipped roofs and half-dormers with shaped gables. The ground floor is now covered by a modern loggia run out with shops at each end. The item is the principal element in an associated group of promenade structures including bandstand (q.v.), lifeboat monument (q.v.), octagonal pavilion (q.v.) and two shelters (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD3183628630