Gardens · South West England
Queen Anne's Walk
Queen Anne's Walk — a garden in england-south-west, United Kingdom.
Neil Owen — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2.5 h
- Best time of year
- Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)
- Dog-friendly
About
Queen Anne's Walk is a garden of interest in england-south-west, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Queen Anne's Walk (formerly The Mercantile Exchange) is a grade I listed building in the town of Barnstaple, North Devon, completed in 1713 as a meeting place for the town's merchants. It is believed to have been designed by the architect William Talman, on the basis of its similarity to his work at the Hall in Drayton, Northamptonshire. It was promoted and financed by the thirteen members of the Corporation of Barnstaple whose armorials are sculpted on and above the parapet, and the work was overseen by Robert Incledon (1676–1758), Mayor of Barnstaple in 1712–13. It has been owned for many decades by North Devon District Council, which currently (2014) leases it to Barnstaple Town Council, and now trades as The Cafe on the Strand.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
Description
It consists of a low single-storey building fronted by a white Beer stone colonnade of ten bays, five to the left of the central bay supporting a statue of Queen Anne and four to the right. Above the columns and wrapping around the east side by one bay, is a parapet decorated with relief sculpted garlanded heraldic escutcheons, one per bay, showing the arms of eleven leading aristocratic, gentry and mercantile families of North Devon, with the arms of the Borough of Barnstaple forming a twelfth.
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 51.0791, -4.0615
- County
- Devon
- District
- North Devon
- Parish
- Barnstaple
- Postcode
- EX31 1EX
- Parliamentary constituency
- North Devon
- Official site
- www.barnstapletowncouncil.gov.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q17526853 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Queen Anne's Walk (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Queen Anne's Walk?
- Queen Anne's Walk is in South West England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 51.0791°, -4.0615°.