Market Cross and Attached Pump
MARKET CROSS AND ATTACHED PUMP, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1135455
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Market Cross and Attached Pump
- Statutory Address:
- MARKET CROSS AND ATTACHED PUMP, MARKET PLACE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1135455
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Market Cross and Attached Pump
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARKET CROSS AND ATTACHED PUMP, MARKET PLACE
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:
- MARKET CROSS AND ATTACHED PUMP, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 45555 21870
Details
PONTEFRACT MARKET PLACE SE 4521 NE 8/29 Market Cross and attached pump (formerly listed as 29.7.50 Market Cross)
GV II*
Market building with attached pump. 1734, built for Elizabeth Dupier; mid-C18 pump. Ashlar with stone slate roof. Rectangular on plan, tall single storey, 3 x 1 bays. Building rests on a shallow podium and has a raised floor. Plinth. Rusticated stonework below impost level of main openings. End elevations have tall central semi-circular-headed arch with moulded archivolt, raised keystone and wide impost band flanked by low semi-circular-headed arches with radiating rusticated voussoirs and large impost blocks. Above the impost band to either side of central arch are semi-circular-headed niches with moulded sills, pilastered jambs and keyed archi- jambs and keyed archi- volts. Between them to south-east side is a plaque in moulded surround inscribed 'Erected by Mrs Elizabeth Dupeer, Relict of Solomon Dupeer, Gent, in a cheerful and generous compliance with his benevolent intention. Ano Domi 1734'. Wide moulded cornice. Hipped roof. Main side elevations have 3 tall semi-circular-headed arches, similar to central arch of end elevations, plus similar cornice above. Interior of arches are similarly treated, walls and ceiling are plastered and the floor is flagged. To centre is an original long plank bench on paired turned wooden legs. Pump attached to south-west side of the building has lead casing with raised foliage decoration, now mostly obscured by later wooden casing. Originally the building had a flat roof and a. stone balustrade, replaced by the present pitched roof in 1763. D Linstrum, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture (1978), p. 313.
Listing NGR: SE4555521870
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342668
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Linstrum, D, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978), 313
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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