Drinking Fountain
Drinking fountain, Elliott Street, Tyldesley
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1068444
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Drinking Fountain
- Statutory Address:
- Drinking fountain, Elliott Street, Tyldesley
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1068444
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Drinking Fountain
- Statutory Address 1:
- Drinking fountain, Elliott Street, Tyldesley
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Drinking fountain, Elliott Street, Tyldesley
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wigan (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD6909302015
Details
This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement 5 December 2024 to Update Details and reformat the text to current standards
SD 60 SE
2/46
TYLDESLEY
ELLIOTT STREET (south side)
Drinking fountain
[Formerly listed as Drinking fountain, ELLIOTT STREET (north side)]
GV
II
The Elliot Street drinking fountain is a stone fountain erected in around 1892. The fountain was funded by Tyldesley historian John Buckley (1812-1892) who left £200 in his will for ‘a water drinking fountain for Man, Beasts and Dogs’. Initially known as the Buckley Fountain, it was unveiled in front of a crowd in 1893.The fountain was originally topped with a gas light as it was intended to also serve as a "public lamp pillar". Historic mapping shows that it was originally located in The Square, south of Elliot Street, on the east side of Chapel Street. It was later moved to Astley Street Park, then back to The Square on the north side of Elliot Street, before being cleaned and reinstated, almost in its original position, in front of Tyldesley Top Chapel in 2015.
The drinking fountain is of stone and designed in a Gothic Revival style. It has a stone square shaft mounted on stone steps with cusped niches in each face. The niches surround the drinking fountains and one bears the inscription: ‘Donated by John Buckley 1812-1892’. There are corner colonnettes supporting gablets which bear coats of arms and a square tapering shaft which takes the place of a roof.
Listing NGR: SD6909302015
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 213515
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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