Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
23137
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/03/2000
Date of Amendment
31/03/2000
Name of Property
Waterloo Road Gatepiers & Gates to Belle Vue Park
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Newport
Community
Stow Hill
Town
Locality
Belle Vue Park
Easting
330527
Northing
187175
Street Side
E
Location
At NW entrance to Park, near junction of Waterloo Road, and Friars Road.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
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.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as part of group of items associated with this important public park.
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