MEMORIAL PUMP AND CANOPY

MEMORIAL PUMP AND CANOPY, A689

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1144997
Date first listed:: 14-May-1984
List Entry Name:: MEMORIAL PUMP AND CANOPY
Statutory Address:: MEMORIAL PUMP AND CANOPY, A689

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1144997
Date first listed:: 14-May-1984
List Entry Name:: MEMORIAL PUMP AND CANOPY
Statutory Address 1:: MEMORIAL PUMP AND CANOPY, A689

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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Location

Statutory Address:: MEMORIAL PUMP AND CANOPY, A689

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

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Alston Moor
National Grid Reference:: NY7814443724

Details

NY 74 SE 7/35

ALSTON MOOR A689 NENTHEAD (north side) Memorial pump and canopy

G.V. II

Memorial pump under ornamental canopy dated 1877. Stands on stepped base of large stone slabs. Cast-iron; cylindrical pump is fluted, c2½ ft high, with bucket rest and lion's head spout. 4 columns with Classical, Egyptian, and Gothic detailing support a ribbed dome with finial. Foundry mark probably GEO. SMITH, SUN FOUNDRY, GLASGOW. Semicircular arch, with cusping, to each side inscribed: ERECTED BY R.W. BAINBRIDGE ESQ OF MIDDLETON HOUSE. Oval plaque above each arch inscribed: IN COMMEMORATION OF A TESTIMONIAL PRESENTED TO HIM & MRS BAINBRIDGE BY THE EMPLOYEES OF THE LONDON LEAD CO. & OTHER FRIENDS SEPT. 28TH 1877. Corner antifixae have obelisk finials; small crocodile to top of each cap internally. Middleton-in-Teesdale, County Durham, has an identical memorial canopy with an ornamental fountain instead of a pump.

Listing NGR: NY7814443724

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Legacy System number:: 73095
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.