Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bandstand at Ammanford Park
Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 10 August 1994
- Community
- Ammanford
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.79239, -3.99207
- Cadw reference
- 14810
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1860 "41. Caermathen." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated at SW side of public park, near Tir-y-dail Lane.
History
1936 bandstand in painted cast-iron on brick base with red tile roof.
Exterior
Octagonal brick base with brick steps up, eight slim columns with capitals and each with three traceried brackets to flat boarded roof. Every second column also acts as a downpipe and is connected to cast-iron gutter. Iron railings between columns on five sides, gate on SW side, the three front (NE) sides left open. Roof has red terracotta ridges and slim finial. An inscription on the gate records the bandstand being a memorial to Evan Evans, Chemist.
Reason for designation
A good example of an inter-war bandstand which is historically associated with an eminent local entrepreneur.
Nearby in the register
- Miners Welfare HallRecreationalunder 1 mi
- Entry Gates and Piers to Ammanford ParkDomesticunder 1 mi
- 33 College StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- The ArcadeCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.