Bandstand in Vivary Park is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. Bandstand.
Bandstand in Vivary Park
- WRENN ID
- fading-lintel-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1975
- Type
- Bandstand
- Address
- Bandstand in Vivary Park, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 228 240
- Coordinates
- 51.01027, -3.10129
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The bandstand in Vivary Park is an attractive late 19th-century structure located in the southern part of the park. It is octagonal and painted white, featuring a rusticated stone base supported by eight cast iron columns with crocket capitals. These columns hold up an octagonal boarded canopy that is topped with a pyramidal lead roof, which rises in two stages to a pinnacle adorned with a gilt ball. Both the main and subsidiary canopies are decorated with wrought-iron scrolled cresting and corner pinnacles. The upper canopy includes pierced grilles, while the main canopy is supported by pierced scrolled brackets. The columns display a delicate leaf motif, and the platform is surrounded by an openwork balustrade with curved tops. The bandstand is part of a group of listed buildings in Vivary Park and Mount Street, which includes the School, Unitarian Chapel, the Lawn, and Mary Street House in Mary Street, as well as Wilton House in Hammets Walk and Nos 1 to 14 (consecutive) Upper High Street.
Local climate
Bandstand in Vivary Park receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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