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Latitude: 51.3879 / 51°23'16"N
Longitude: -2.3605 / 2°21'37"W
OS Eastings: 375009
OS Northings: 165495
OS Grid: ST750654
Mapcode National: GBR 0Q9.XPH
Mapcode Global: VH96M.1CFV
Plus Code: 9C3V9JQQ+5Q
Entry Name: Battlemented Look-Out Tower to the West End of Hedgemead Park
Listing Date: 15 October 2010
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1395992
English Heritage Legacy ID: 511402
ID on this website: 101395992
Location: Hedgemead Park, Walcot, Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, BA1
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bath
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
Tagged with: Tower
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HEDGEMEAD PARK
Battlemented look-out tower to the west end of Hedgemead Park
GV
II
Look-out tower. 1889. By TB Silcock.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to parapet, rough ashlar to tower with railings to top.
PLAN: Three-quarter cylindrical plan.
EXTERIOR: Tower extends to east side of revetment wall that runs from north to south of park and forms substantial buttress to wall. Base approx 4m in diameter and approx 4m. high. Thick battlemented parapet has platband below and blind cross-loopholes below each merlon. Inside parapet are simple straight railings.
HISTORY: A romantically conceived piece of neo-baronial earth-propping. Hedgemead Park was laid out on the site of a notorious land-slide which brought many houses down; this necessitated the construction of a substantial revetment wall, to which this picturesque feature was a notable embellishment. Park was laid out in 1889.
SOURCES: [R. Gilding, `Historic Public Parks. Avon' (1997), 35-39].
Listing NGR: ST7500965495
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