Emma's Well and Memorial Stone
EMMA'S WELL AND MEMORIAL STONE, AMWELL HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1077991
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Emma's Well and Memorial Stone
- Statutory Address:
- EMMA'S WELL AND MEMORIAL STONE, AMWELL HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1077991
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Emma's Well and Memorial Stone
- Statutory Address 1:
- EMMA'S WELL AND MEMORIAL STONE, AMWELL HILL
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:
- EMMA'S WELL AND MEMORIAL STONE, AMWELL HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Amwell
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 37222 12575
Details
GREAT AMWELL AMWELL LANE TL 3712 (north side) Great Amwell Village
12/3 Emma's Well and Memorial Stone GV II
A brick revetted basin for the spring from which Amwell takes its name, and which was one of the 2 sources of the New River of 1609-13 (the other being Chadwell at Ware). C18 or C19 buff brick revetment walls to D-shaped pool with island, weir, sluice and overflow, presumably representing repairs and renewals of the original arrangement. The spring frequently now runs dry. On slope between road and spring an upright white stone memorial slab inscribed with verses from the poem 'Amwell' by the Quaker poet John Scott of Amwell (1730-1783).
Listing NGR: TL3722212575
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 355813
- 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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