Band Stand in the Town Park, Warrenpoint, Newry, Co Down, BT34 3NZ

Octagonal cast-iron bandstand in middle of public park. Metal-sheeted chatri roof surmounted by an ornate lantern with swept apex terminating in a highly decorative ball finial. Both the roof and lantern have decorative cast-iron crestings with similar, but smaller, ball finials to each corner. The lantern has fretted cast-iron cheeks. The verge to the main roof contains a gutter, the downpipe from which returns down one of the columns. On the main roof, on the crestings over the access steps, is a cast metal plaque reading "Warrenpoint Urban District Council/ Erected/ 1907" and depicting a sunburst and two rabbits to centre. Each segment of underside of the roof is horizontally sheeted in timber with a foliated centrepiece and a hatch into roof at NW. The roof is supported on eight slender painted cast-iron columns with Corinthian capitals, each with the foundry's name "W. Macfarlane & Co/ Glasgow". They have a decorative applied dado and lily-of-the-valley applied ornamentation to each shaft. Decorative metal brackets link their tops and support the eaves. Ornate cast railings enclose their bottom sections. A front (SE) gate, with five concrete steps up, matches the railings and has ball-topped posts. The bases of the columns are fixed to dressed granite blocks set into a painted and rendered base which also forms the floor of the bandstand. Two bronze plaques on the gate commemorate Newry & Mourne District Council's success in the 'Ulster in Bloom' competition in 1985 and 1993. Floor is of painted concrete with circular metal track and similar on ceiling from which glazed timber wind break screens hang in the summer months.