Two Pairs Of Gatepiers At The Junction With Weston Road is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 2010. Gatepiers.
Two Pairs Of Gatepiers At The Junction With Weston Road
- WRENN ID
- patient-quoin-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 2010
- Type
- Gatepiers
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Two pairs of gatepiers mark the entrance to Royal Victoria Park at the junction of Park Lane and Weston Road. They were built around 1880, likely designed by the City Surveyor, Charles Davis, after the Bath Corporation purchased the Commons from the City Freemen in 1879.
The gatepiers are made of limestone ashlar. Each pier is nearly one metre square and approximately 3 metres high, flanking pedestrian entrances on either side of the carriage entrance. They feature a low moulded plinth, chamfered banded rustication on the shafts, a wide dentil cornice, and a block cap. The inner facets have plain ashlar uprights with key pattern tops beneath the cornices, which were formerly used for gate fixings.
A surveyor's plan from 1879, approved by the Council, indicates that the triangle of land in the north-west corner was part of the Common and did not have a road or entrance at that time.
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