Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gates and Gatepiers at SW Corner of Belle Vue Park
Stow Hill, Newport, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Stow Hill, Newport, designated on 31 March 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 31 March 2000
- Community
- Stow Hill
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.57696, -3.00568
- Cadw reference
- 23149
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 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)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1906 · 249 Newport (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
At SW entrance to Belle Vue Park.
History
The land for the park was given by Lord Tredegar in 1891. Mawson won the competition (despite submitting designs for the wrong site) and the park opened in 1894. Mawson designed the layout for the park, and virtually all the buildings including terraces and tea pavilion, lodges, bridges, walls and gatepiers. Mawson became a landscape architect and town planner of international importance with commissions throughout Britain, and also in Canada and Greece.
The Borough council over-ruled Mawson and rather than commissioning an original design, purchased gates from Messrs T Brawn & Co of Birmingham.
Exterior
Rock-faced stone gatepiers with cap stones support elaborate iron gates with Newport Borough arms.
Reason for designation
Listed as part of group of items associated with this important public park.
Nearby in the register
- Waterloo Road Gatepiers & Gates to Belle Vue ParkGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Milestone at Belle Vue ParkTransportunder 1 mi
- Rustic Tea HouseGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Pavilion and attached ConservatoriesGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.