FOUNTAIN BELOW AND TO NORTH EAST OF UPPER WATER

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1088594
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1983
List Entry Name:: FOUNTAIN BELOW AND TO NORTH EAST OF UPPER WATER
Statutory Address:: FOUNTAIN BELOW AND TO NORTH EAST OF UPPER WATER

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1088594
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1983
List Entry Name:: FOUNTAIN BELOW AND TO NORTH EAST OF UPPER WATER
Statutory Address 1:: FOUNTAIN BELOW AND TO NORTH EAST OF UPPER WATER

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: FOUNTAIN BELOW AND TO NORTH EAST OF UPPER WATER

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Cotswold (District Authority)
Parish:: Blockley
National Grid Reference:: SP1666936056

Details

SP 13 NE 1/141 BLOCKLEY NORTHWICK PARK

Fountain Below and to North-East of Upper Water

II

Circa 1900, cast-iron in shallow circular stone basin. The fountain is designed in the style of the Belle Epoque (just possibly 3rd Empire) and could be French. Cast-iron probably or bronze: a shallow basin fed by entwined dolphins whose tails support a further basin; bulbous acanthus stem; octagonal plinth with putti riding dolphins and blowing conches on projecting buttresses; lion's masks in subsidiary faces.

Listing NGR: SP1666936056

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 126855
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.