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Bandstand

Neath, Neath Port Talbot, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Neath, Neath Port Talbot, designated on 5 January 1989.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Bandstand, Neath, Neath Port Talbot, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Listed building, Grade II
Broad class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Date of designation
5 January 1989
Community
Neath
Unitary authority
Neath Port Talbot
Country
Wales
Coordinates
51.66148, -3.80243
Cadw reference
11822

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1897 · 247 Swansea (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Cadw's description

History

Late C19, c1898?

Exterior

Octagonal ironwork bandstand. Ogee lead roof with cast iron weathervane to apex. Decorative cast iron supporting brackets with linking panels rest on foliate capitals to cast iron columns, bulbous moulded bases. Cast iron decorative screens with panels baring husk garland motifs forming "balustrade" to podium. Ribbed ceiling with central rose.

Octagonal bull nosed masonry plinth, buttressed at angles. Steps with side walls and low piers to N side. Gateway widened by removing left hand ironwork section.

Foundry name to base of columns illegible.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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