Nine Wells Monument
NINE WELLS MONUMENT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127825
- Date first listed:
- 28-Dec-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Nine Wells Monument
- Statutory Address:
- NINE WELLS MONUMENT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127825
- Date first listed:
- 28-Dec-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Nine Wells Monument
- Statutory Address 1:
- NINE WELLS MONUMENT
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:
- NINE WELLS MONUMENT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Shelford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 46106 54098
Details
The following item shall be added
TL 45 SE GREAT SHELFORD NINE WELLS SPRINGS
5/207 Nine Wells Monument
II
Monument. 1861. Polished granite obelisk, podium with inscriptions and stepped base set on stepped base and gault brick plinth. Surrounded by iron railings. The springs at Nine Wells have supplied Hobson's Conduit in Cambridge since 1610, and the inscriptions include in the dedication the name of Thomas Hobson the carrier who 'paid' for the 17th century fountain house which once stood in the market place and formed part of this enterprise.
Listing NGR: TL4610654098
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51616
- 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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