Clock and Drinking Fountain
CLOCK AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN, HOULDSWORTH SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162500
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Clock and Drinking Fountain
- Statutory Address:
- CLOCK AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN, HOULDSWORTH SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162500
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Clock and Drinking Fountain
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLOCK AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN, HOULDSWORTH SQUARE
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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:
- CLOCK AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN, HOULDSWORTH SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Stockport (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 89457 93430
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15/09/2016
SJ 8993 13/101
HOULDSWORTH SQUARE (Centre)
Clock and Drinking Fountain
II
Plinth with inscription, bronze portrait roundel, fountain niche and bow on faces, supports clustered columns in pink granite, carved capitals, below block with clock face, gable top and foliated finial. Designed and erected by J. and H. Patteson of Manchester and unveiled in September 1920.
Inscription:- Dedicated to the memory of Sir William Houldsworth Baronet by the people of Reddish in grateful remembrance of the bountiful gifts whereby he enriched and adorned their village and manifested his concern for their spiritual and physical welfare.
(Sir William built St Elisabeth's Church and surrounding complex, and Houldsworth Mill and the terraces of workers houses, as a planned industrial estate in the 1870s).
Listing NGR: SJ8945793430
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 210820
- 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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