Wash Basin
- Date:
- 19 Aug 1999
- Location:
- Wash Basin, Buckland Dinham, Mendip, Somerset
- Reference:
- IOE01/00128/20
- Type:
- Photograph (Digital)
This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
ST 75 SE BUCKLAND DINHAM BRIDGE CLOSE SPRING
284/4/10009 Wash Basin
GV II
Wash basin, or laver. Dated 1876, Roughly dressed stone. Large round arch niche in wall with roughly dressed voussoirs, and keystone on which is carved a monogram: HC, and the date 1876, in an elongated quatrefoil with a small Maltese cross at the top. Within the niche is a semi-circular stone basin on rough stone corbels; the water supply is from a pool behind. It was paid for by the vicar, Revd. Clutterbuck, and was built for the people of the village to wash their clothes.
Listing NGR: ST7560650888
This is part of the Series: IOE01/0370 IOE Records taken by Robert O Caudwell; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Mr Robert O. Caudwell. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Caudwell, Robert O.
Rights Holder: Caudwell, Robert O.
Stone, Victorian Washing Place, Domestic, Water Supply And Drainage
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