Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bandstand at Bedwellty Park
Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Recreational
- Date of designation
- 14 October 1999
- Locality
- Tredegar
- Community
- Tredegar
- Unitary authority
- Blaenau Gwent
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.76796, -3.24329
- Cadw reference
- 22487
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Bedwellty Park is located on the S side of Tredegar town centre. The bandstand stands prominently SW of Bedwellty House.
History
Built 1912 at the expense of Bedwellty Park Athletic Club. Bedwellty House was presented, along with its grounds, to the people of Tredegar by the Morgan family of Tredegar House in 1901, for recreational purposes.
Exterior
Octagonal bandstand of iron construction. Ornate iron columns, with facetted lower stages, and fluted centre stages. Decorative segmental arches between columns formed by open scrolled wrought iron spandrels. Low railings between columns with repeated scroll pattern, plain top-rail. Structure stands on plinth of moulded cement blocks imitating ashlar: cemented steps facing NE with balustrades matching railings: paired gates with similar detail. Simple plaque to base commemorating the gift of the bandstand to the Urban District Council by Bedwellty Park Athletic Club on 3rd June 1912. Metal-sheeted two-stage roof, altered in later C20: old photographs show that the roof originally had an two-stage ogee profile, with an ironwork frieze between the stages.
Interior
Boarded ceiling with radiating ribs.
Reason for designation
Group value with Bedwellty House.
Nearby in the register
- Bedwellty HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Boundary Stone at Bedwellty HouseIndustrialunder 1 mi
- War Memorial at Bedwellty ParkCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Great Exhibition Lump of Coal at Bedwellty ParkCommemorativeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.