Western Bandstand And Lavatories And Walls And Railings Opposite Bedford Square

BRIGHTON

TQ3004SW KING'S ROAD 577-1/38/371 (South side) 20/08/71 Western Bandstand, lavatories, walls and railings, opposite Bedford Square (Formerly Listed as: KING'S ROAD Band Stand opposite Bedford Square)

GV II

Bandstand and lavatories. Probably 1883-7. Stone to basement, cast-iron and wood to bandstand, roof now painted, possibly lead. Octagonal basement with banded rustication; 2 pairs of flat-arched windows in each face except those to east and west which have flat-arched entrances with eared architraves. The bandstand proper is loosely oriental in style. It is surrounded by a balcony cantilevered out over the basement, with cast-iron railings; 8 cast-iron columns with oriental capitals carrying round arches decorated with trefoils and having Brighton's dolphins in the spandrels; a bracket like the spandrels runs up from each capital to support a canopy with a fringe of cast-iron openwork; wooden ceiling with radiating panels; roof of flattened ogee form with a cupola of ogee profile with latticed openings. Low wall surrounding the whole building, square in plan with semicircular apse to the south, surmounted by iron railings.

Listing NGR: TQ3005804126