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Gate Piers, Gates and Walls to Williamson Park

A Grade II Listed Building in Lancaster, Lancashire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.0436 / 54°2'36"N

Longitude: -2.7851 / 2°47'6"W

OS Eastings: 348689

OS Northings: 461129

OS Grid: SD486611

Mapcode National: GBR 8PZP.V7

Mapcode Global: WH847.6M1H

Plus Code: 9C6V26V7+CX

Entry Name: Gate Piers, Gates and Walls to Williamson Park

Listing Date: 13 March 1995

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1214963

English Heritage Legacy ID: 383356

ID on this website: 101214963

Location: Williamson Park, Golgotha, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA1

County: Lancashire

District: Lancaster

Electoral Ward/Division: John O'Gaunt

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Lancaster

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire

Church of England Parish: Lancaster Christ Church

Church of England Diocese: Blackburn

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Description



LANCASTER

SD4861 WYRESDALE ROAD
1685-1/5/352 (East side)
Gate piers, gates and walls to
Williamson Park

GV II

Gateway. 1880. Sandstone ashlar with cast and wrought-iron
gates. The gate piers flanking the main carriageway are of
square plan with moulded bases, fluted pilasters carved with
rosettes on their friezes, moulded cornices, and are capped by
stones whose semicircular elevations have fan-like carving.
To left and right are pedestrian entrances with moulded
semicircular arches springing from moulded imposts and with
carved keystones and spandrel decoration. At their outer sides
are fluted pilasters, and above a moulded cornice and blocking
course. The friezes are carved: 'WILLIAMSON' and 'PARK 1880'.
To each side are low stone walls of S-plan carrying railings
between rectangular piers with cornices and sunken panels. The
railings have ball-and-spike finials.
The pedestrian gates have friezes of roundels and are
cross-braced with a central boss with foliage decoration. The
central gates have borders of roundels and have shields of
arms in the centres of their upper panels.
HISTORY: Williamson Park was laid out on the site of disused
quarries and moorland. Some development began during the
Cotton Famine of the 1860s, but large-scale development only
began during the 1870s when James Williamson (Senior) paid to
have the landscape developed to the designs of Mr Maclean of
Castle Donnington. James Williamson (Junior) handed the park
over to Lancaster Corporation in 1881.


Listing NGR: SD4868961129

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