The Ryder Memorial
THE RYDER MEMORIAL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100485
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1975
- List Entry Name:
- The Ryder Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- THE RYDER MEMORIAL, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100485
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1975
- List Entry Name:
- The Ryder Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE RYDER MEMORIAL, HIGH STREET
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:
- THE RYDER MEMORIAL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bovingdon
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 01489 03764
Details
BOVINGDON HIGH STREET TL 0103 (South end) 10/29 The Ryder Memorial 15.4.75
GV II
Wellhouse. 1881. By W. White FSA for Ryder family. Timber frame on red brick plinth with blue brick chamfered offsets. Steep pyramidal shingled roof. A small 5-sided timber structure in Medieval style. Moulded wooden corner piers with curved braces up to eaves - the whole structure open, on an oak sill and chamfered brick plinth. Wooden shingle pyramidal roof with wrought iron finial. Bears the following inscription on wallplate: 'This house with its well dedicated to ye beloved memory/of ye Honble Granville D Ryder, late of Westbrook Hay in this Parish/he was born November 26th AD 1799/and died 24th November 1879/was raised by his relations for/the use and comfort of his friends/ the Villagers of Bovingdon April AD 1881/Let them remember ye waters/that never fail S John IV 14'. The well itself has been covered over. (VCH(1908)216: Roberts(1975)No.30).
Listing NGR: TL0148903764
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157556
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Roberts, E, The Bovingdon Survey, ()
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1908), 216
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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