Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Colonnade and gateways at S end of Queen Anne Square
Cathays, Cardiff, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Cathays, Cardiff, designated on 22 October 2001.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 22 October 2001
- Locality
- Cathays
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- Cathays
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.48870, -3.18422
- Cadw reference
- 25827
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)
- 1898 · 263 Cardiff (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 110. Cardiff & Mouth of the Severn. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Opposite the junction with King Edward VII Avenue.
History
Queen Anne Square was built to a planned layout in the 1930s and 1950s aligned with King Edward VII Avenue to the S, on a site originally earmarked for a Welsh Parliament House. The colonnade is shown on the 1941 Ordnance Survey, when only 9 of the present 31 houses had been built.
Exterior
In a simple classical style and comprising 2 gateways with colonnade between, of brick with freestone dressings. The gateways have square brick piers with angle pilasters, and are crowned by garlanded urns on capstones. On the outer sides a coped wall is swept down to a lower wall incorporating pedestrian side gates, and terminating in a square pier with stone cap. The pedestrian gateways have flat brick arches with keystones. The 5-bay freestone Tuscan colonnade has 4 pairs of columns, and a moulded entablature topped by urns. Between the columns each bay has simple ironwork railings incorporating dog bars.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special contribution to the architectural character of the civic centre, to which with Aberdare Hall it defines the N end.
Nearby in the register
- Aberdare Hall including attached NE wing at rearDomesticunder 1 mi
- Three Oblique Forms (Walk in), Sculpture in forecourt of School of MusicGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Redwood Building (formerly Welsh College of Advanced Technology), Cardiff UniversityEducationunder 1 mi
- School of Music, Cardiff UniversityEducationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.