Retaining Wall East Of Railway Line is a Grade II* listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1975. Infrastructure.
Retaining Wall East Of Railway Line
- WRENN ID
- scattered-pier-ebony
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1975
- Type
- Infrastructure
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SYDNEY GARDENS 656-1/32/1646
Retaining Wall East of Railway Line 05/08/75
GV II*
Retaining wall between Beckford Road and Sydney Road to east of former Great Western Railway. c1840. By I.K. Brunel, Engineer to Great Western Railway. Limestone ashlar. Approx 7m high with panelled parapet over cornice and frieze. Lower part has concave batter, plinth and shallow piers approx 1.5m wide and 8m apart. HISTORY: Part of the outstanding Great Western Railway mainline: the sensitivity of the site of this cutting resulted in an exceptionally architectural treatment which, far from scarring the pleasure ground, added a new feature within the landscape of Sydney Gardens. The broad Great Western Railway gauge is immediately apparent. The first train ran through in June 1841. SOURCES: John Froud, 'The Great Western Railway in Bathwick' in 'Beyond Mr Pulteney's Bridge' (Bath Preservation Trust exhib. Cat. 1987), 18-19; Brenda Snaddon, 'The Last Promenade. Sydney Gardens, Bath' (2000), 31-2.
Listing NGR: ST7583665394
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