Belvedere At Junction Of Walks At East End Of Park

PRESTON

SD5428NW AVENHAM PARK 941-1/14/6 (East side) 27/09/79 Belvedere at junction of walks at east end of park (Formerly Listed as: AVENHAM PARK Shelter at east side of Park)

GV II

Gazebo. Built 1865-6. Rendered brick with sandstone as ashlar facade (painted white), flat roof. Shallow rectangular plan. Classical style. Single storey, built back-to-earth, 3:1:3 bays, symmetrical, with open arcaded front and ends. The centre, forming a slightly projected and taller porch (approached by flight of 9 stone steps), has a large round-headed arch with set-in Corinthian shafts, moulded impost bands, and moulded extrados with keystone flanked by roundels with shields of arms, and a modillioned cornice. The 3-bay side ranges have similar but smaller arches on slender Corinthian columns and responds with square caps, moulded cornices with blocking courses; and matching one-bay returned ends. Interior has blind arcading in rear wall of each side range. Originally on site now occupied by Derby Monument (q.v.), dismantled and re-erected on this site c.1873.

Listing NGR: SD5413828758