DRINKING FOUNTAIN 30 METRES EAST OF POST OFFICE

DRINKING FOUNTAIN 30 METRES EAST OF POST OFFICE, B6343

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1042682
Date first listed:: 29-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: DRINKING FOUNTAIN 30 METRES EAST OF POST OFFICE
Statutory Address:: DRINKING FOUNTAIN 30 METRES EAST OF POST OFFICE, B6343

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Date:: 2000-06-21
Reference:: IOE01/02327/18
Rights:: © Mr David J Wilkinson. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1042682
Date first listed:: 29-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: DRINKING FOUNTAIN 30 METRES EAST OF POST OFFICE
Statutory Address 1:: DRINKING FOUNTAIN 30 METRES EAST OF POST OFFICE, B6343

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:: DRINKING FOUNTAIN 30 METRES EAST OF POST OFFICE, B6343

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

District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Mitford
National Grid Reference:: NZ1720685990

Details

NZ 1785 10/5

MITFORD B 6343 (North side) Mitford Drinking fountain 30 metres east of Post Office

II

Drinking fountain, 1877. Tooled-and-margined stone, brass. Round-headed arch enclosing relief carving of dragon's head impaled on sword, and spout plate inscribed J.P.O.M. (Colonel John Philip Osbaldeston-Mitford) with date.

Included for historical interest as the site of a holy well,the reputed scene in 1006 of miracles associated with a relic of St. Cuthbert's shroud.

Listing NGR: NZ1720685990

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Legacy System number:: 238920
Legacy System:: LBS

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