Dryland Fountain

Dryland Fountain, Sheep Street, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN16 0AN

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A drinking fountain of around 1907. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1051644
Date first listed:: 14-Apr-1976
List Entry Name:: Dryland Fountain
Statutory Address:: Dryland Fountain, Sheep Street, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN16 0AN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1051644
Date first listed:: 14-Apr-1976
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Nov-2022
List Entry Name:: Dryland Fountain
Statutory Address 1:: Dryland Fountain, Sheep Street, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN16 0AN

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

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Dryland Fountain, Sheep Street, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN16 0AN

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District:: North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Kettering Town
National Grid Reference:: SP 86662 78336

Summary

A drinking fountain of around 1907.

Reasons for Designation

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History

The historic core of Kettering centres around St Peter and St Paul Church, Market Place to its north-west, and the immediate network of streets around it. Originally a Saxon village and later a market town, Kettering was for much of its history a relatively small linear settlement comprising what are now Gold Street, the High Street, Market Street, and Market Place, and Sheep Street to the south. This core layout of medieval streets persists today, though the majority of the surviving buildings date from the C19 and early C20. Kettering was at the convergence of several important routes and benefited from this and from the wool industry, but it was the arrival in 1857 of the Midland Railway which enabled larger industries, particularly the boot and shoe making industry, to expand the town significantly beyond its historic core. The wider town is still characterised by numerous former factories and associated terraced housing.

Historically the site of the Dryland Fountain formed part of the extended gardens of the town’s manor house, which was, until the Reformation, under the ownership of Peterborough Abbey. A map from the 1720s shows the site occupied with orchards. By 1884 however, the site was occupied by the Royal Ironworks. This structure had been demolished and the road widened by 1900, and in 1904 the town library was built on the site. In about 1907 the fountain and horse troughs were erected in front of the library to commemorate Dr John Winter Dryland, following his sudden death in 1906. Dryland had been the council medical officer and was instrumental in the foundation of the town’s isolation hospital in 1897.

Details

MATERIALS: carved limestone.

DESCRIPTION: tall rectangular limestone pedestal with an entablature and carved finial. The north and south (side) faces are decorated with carved swags of flowers and prominent scrolls or volutes at the base, above a limestone horse trough. The western face reads ‘A MAN / GREATLY / BELOVED’ in a roundel and ‘ERECTED BY / PUBLIC / SUBSCRIPTION’ in a lower panel. The eastern face reads ‘TO THE / MEMORY OF / JOHN WINTER / DRYLAND / M.R.C.S L.M L.S.A / J.P / 1834-1906’. At the base, the water fountain lets into a semi-circular ribbed or ‘gadrooned’ basin. In a panel above the volutes, an inscription on the south elevation has become too eroded to read, the equivalent panel on the north elevation reads ‘HE PRAYETH WELL/ WHO LOVETH WELL / BOTH MAN AND / BIRD AND BEAST’.

A small brass plaque above the basin records that the monument was refurbished in 1994 by KG Wright (Builders) Ltd, supported by the Civic Society of Kettering, the county council and Anglian Water.

Listing NGR: SP8666278336

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 230111
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Websites
Local history including details of John Winter Dryland, Towns on the web, , accessed 19 February 2021 from [http://www.townsontheweb.com/northamptonshire/kettering/local_visiting_history.htm]
Northampton Historic Environment records 7198/0/11, accessed 16 June 2021 from [https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MNN106835&resourceID=1044]
Other
"Parishes: Kettering," in A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 3, ed. William Page (London: Victoria County History, 1930), 218-226. British History Online, accessed January 25 2021, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol3/pp218-226.
Map of Kettering c. 1720, accessed 16 February 2021 at [http://britishlibrary.georeferencer.com/maps/a6b9887c-b961-47b1-8460-899d17408fc3/]
OS 25” Northamptonshire XXV.14 (Broughton; Kettering) (revised 1924, published 1926)
OS 25” Northamptonshire XXV.14 (Broughton; Kettering) (surveyed 1884, published 1887)

Legal

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