Clapham Common Bandstand (London)

United Kingdom / England / Swanley-Hextable / London
 bandstand, 1860s construction, Grade II Listed (UK)

1861 by Captain Francis Fowke. Circular on plan with coupled iron columns supporting quadripartite pierced iron brackets. The roof is a Greek cross on plan with quadrants filling the angles. Above is a shallow drum of pierced iron- work supporting a gadrooned lead dome with candlestick finial. Originally in Royal Horticultural Society's Garden in South Kensington. Re-erected at Clapham in 1890. Now lacking its balustrade and finial and with altered base.
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Coordinates:   51°27'28"N   -0°8'57"E
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