Description

LANCASTER

SD4861 QUERNMORE ROAD
1685-1/5/351 (South side)
Gate piers, gates and walls to
Williamson Park

GV II

Gateway. 1880. Sandstone ashlar with cast and wrought-iron
gates. The gate piers flanking the main carriageway are of
square plan with moulded bases, have fluted pilasters carved
with rosettes on their friezes, moulded cornices, and are
capped by stones whose semicircular elevations have fan-like
carving.
To left and right are pedestrian entrances with moulded
semicircular arches springing from moulded imposts and with
carved keystones and spandrel decoration. At their outer sides
are fluted pilasters, and above a moulded cornice and blocking
course. The friezes are carved: 'WILLIAMSON' and 'PARK 1880'.
To each side are low stone walls of S-plan which originally
carried railings (now removed) between rectangular piers with
cornices and sunken panels. Cast-iron lamps remain on the
outer piers, the right one broken but the left one retaining
its glass globe.
The pedestrian gates have friezes of roundels and are
cross-braced with a central boss with foliage decoration. The
central gates have borders of roundels and have shields of
arms in the centres of their upper panels.
HISTORY: Williamson Park was laid out on the site of disused
quarries and moorland. Some development began during the
Cotton Famine of the 1860s, but large-scale development only
began during the 1870s when James Williamson (Senior) paid to
have the landscape developed to the designs of Mr Maclean of
Castle Donnington. James Williamson (Junior) handed the park
over to Lancaster Corporation in 1881.

Listing NGR: SD4892961597

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26508011

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5