Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bandstand in Victoria Gardens
Cardigan, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Cardigan, Ceredigion, designated on 14 April 1992.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 14 April 1992
- Community
- Cardigan
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.08700, -4.65492
- Cadw reference
- 10498
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 193 Cardigan (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated in centre of triangular public garden immediately north of War Memorial.
History
Erected 1897 when gardens were laid out on former Pwll Pensarnau site to commemorate Diamond Jubilee. Old photographs show decorative pierced valancing around eaves, since removed.
Exterior
Bandstand, cast-iron and sheet-metal on yellow-brick and slate base. Small scale, octagonal with 3 steps up on east side. Eight thin cast iron columns carring ornate scrolled spandrel brackets, and with mid-height cast-iron hand-rail over sheet-metal panels. Overhanging sheet-metal tent roof with rolled-lead ridges and cast iron ornate finial.
Nearby in the register
- The War Memorial including surrounding fenceCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- 9 Priory TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 7 Priory TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 5 Priory TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.