THE SOPHIA WATER FOUNTAIN AT SK 376 445

THE SOPHIA WATER FOUNTAIN AT SK 376 445, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1158300
Date first listed:: 20-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: THE SOPHIA WATER FOUNTAIN AT SK 376 445
Statutory Address:: THE SOPHIA WATER FOUNTAIN AT SK 376 445, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1158300
Date first listed:: 20-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: THE SOPHIA WATER FOUNTAIN AT SK 376 445
Statutory Address 1:: THE SOPHIA WATER FOUNTAIN AT SK 376 445, CHURCH STREET

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:: THE SOPHIA WATER FOUNTAIN AT SK 376 445, CHURCH STREET

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County:: Derbyshire
District:: Amber Valley (District Authority)
Parish:: Horsley
National Grid Reference:: SK3764144489

Details

PARISH OF HORSLEY CHURCH STREET SK 34 SE 4/27 (North Side) The Sophia Water Fountain at SK 376 445

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Water fountain. 1864, funded by Sacheverell Sitwell. Sandstone. Square pier, approximately 5 feet high, on stepped chamfered base with infilled circular low basin to east side. Above, the pier has pointed inset panels to all sides, each panel with moulded hood with Dec style foliage finials and stops. Eastern panel has a lion's head with water spout and inscription over reading 'The Sophia 1864'. North and south panels have rounded corbels to base, as for statues, and the west panel has a rampant lion to top. Over each panel is a gabled roof cut out of the stone and to the base of each gable is a foliage boss. This and the two other water fountains provided the first piped water supply to the village. Each fountain was named after one of Sacheverell Sitwell's daughters.

Listing NGR: SK3764144489

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Legacy System number:: 78803
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.