BAPTISMAL WELL AND FLANKING WALLS

BAPTISMAL WELL AND FLANKING WALLS, BRAMHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1313463
Date first listed:: 17-Sep-1970
List Entry Name:: BAPTISMAL WELL AND FLANKING WALLS
Statutory Address:: BAPTISMAL WELL AND FLANKING WALLS, BRAMHAM ROAD

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Date:: 2000-10-01
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1313463
Date first listed:: 17-Sep-1970
Date of most recent amendment:: 08-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: BAPTISMAL WELL AND FLANKING WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: BAPTISMAL WELL AND FLANKING WALLS, BRAMHAM ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BAPTISMAL WELL AND FLANKING WALLS, BRAMHAM ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Clifford
National Grid Reference:: SE4270144189

Details

SE 4244-4344 7/95 18.9.70

CLIFFORD LS23 BRAMHAM ROAD (east side) Baptismal well and flanking walls (formerly listed as being on High Street)

GV II

Well house with attached roadside walls. 1840's. For Rev. Lewthwaite (Lane Fox, p.34). Coursed magnesian limestone, stone slate roof. Small, 1-storey rectangular building with chamfered, quoined, pointed-arch doorway blocked-up and set within a recessed stone panel with wrought-iron lamp bracket; above is a moulded, pointed arch rising from corbels beneath a continuous impost string course and with a hoodmould having carved saltire cross on left stop and angel on right stop. Sunken rectangular panel with illegible inscription beneath steeply-pitched gable having coping with weathered text in its moulded edge. Rear: pointed arched doorway; hipped roof. Interior: iron spigot rises from well; groined vault. Adjoining walls extending approximately 15 metres to each side have domed copings; the left wall is broken by an opening with simple iron gate. Previous list description states the moulded pointed arch may be C15. Walls form boundary of Fontwell House. Hildebrand Lane Fox, Chronicles of a Wharfedale Parish, 1909.

Listing NGR: SE4270144189

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Legacy System number:: 342016
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Sources

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Lane Fox, H, 'Chronicles of a Wharfedale Parish' in Chronicles of a Wharfedale Parish, (1909), 34

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.