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Tuesday, 22-May-2012 10:20:33 BST
Architectural Town Walk
The pier pavilion & Cambria Hotel
In the small seaward court outside the college building is a rare, probably unique, statue of the later Edward VIII as Prince of Wales, executed in 1922 by Rutelli; Edward was Chancellor of the University.
Built in 1896 as the Cambria Hotel
Immediately to the north of the Old College, on the corner of Pier Street, is the Cambria Restaurant, formerly the United Theological College. This was built in 1896 as the Hotel Cambria, to the design of George Croydon Marks, engineer to the Aberystwyth Improvement Company. Like Savin's venture, the Hotel Cambria did not prosper; in 1906 it was bought by David Davies of Llandinam as a college for the Calvinistic Methodists, his own denomination, and as a replacement for Trefecca College near Talgarth, Breconshire. It was united with Bala College in 1922, hence its former title.
The Pier dating from 1865, originally 800 feet long
Opposite the Theological College is the Pier, dating from 1865, originally 800 feet long and to the design of Eugenius Birch. The pavilion of 1896 by Sir G. C. Marks survives on the short stub of the pier that remains; iron roofs are said to survive above the present ceilings. The pier was originally three times its present length.
The pier pavilion and the Cambria Hotel were both projects of The Aberystwyth Improvement Company, which was formed in May 1895 to take over the projects begun by Bourne & Grant, electrical engineers. The principal projects were the construction of a cliff railway and the development of pleasure grounds on Constitution Hill, but the Company also had a hand in the improvement and extension of the promenade and the promotion of the Vale of Rheidol Railway as a tourist attraction rather than just a mineral line. George Croydon Marks was manager and engineer to the company and a noted engineer of funicular railways and patentee of a number of railway safety devices.
Marine Terrace, building seems to have started in 1809
East of Pier Street, Marine Terrace curves around to the north. Building seems to have started in 1809, reaching the Bellevue Hotel by 1822, and the part beyond Terrace Road was built up by 1834. There have been alterations and replacements since, nos. 7-12, for instance, rebuilt in 1867, and with bay windows of ca. 1900. The Bellevue Hotel, built before 1830, was remodelled in the 1850s.
Right along Pier Street
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