Drinking fountain and canopy, High Street
High Street, West Bromwich
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1077141
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Drinking fountain and canopy, High Street
- Statutory Address:
- High Street, West Bromwich
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1077141
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Drinking fountain and canopy, High Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- High Street, West Bromwich
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.
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:
- High Street, West Bromwich
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sandwell (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP0073290982
History
Soon after listing in 1987, permission was granted for relocating the fountain and canopy from Dartmouth Park to High Street, where for a number of years it stood beneath a glazed canopy that extended across the street from the Farley Centre. Between 2012 and 2014 the glazed canopy was removed.
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10/11/2020
SP 09 SW
5/73
SANDWELL MB
West Bromwich
High Street
Drinking fountain and canopy
(Formerly listed as Drinking Fountain canopy, West Bromwich, DARTMOUTH PARK, SANDWELL MB)
18.6.87
II
Drinking fountain and canopy. 1885. Cast iron. Decorated round columns have foliated capitals. Each side of the upper part has a multi-cusped round arch and openwork foliage decoration. Above each arch is a circle with ropework border containing a cartouche with the figure of a stork. On one side there is an inscription instead of a stork: "In loving memory of Elizabeth Farley. This fountain was erected by her son Alderman Farley JP 1885". A dome with openwork decoration between ribs is surmounted by an eagle. Some of the column bases are inscribed: "W MACFARLANE & CO GLASGOW".
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 219282
- 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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