Drinking Fountain
DRINKING FOUNTAIN, HOUNDWELL PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1178903
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Drinking Fountain
- Statutory Address:
- DRINKING FOUNTAIN, HOUNDWELL PARK
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1178903
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Drinking Fountain
- Statutory Address 1:
- DRINKING FOUNTAIN, HOUNDWELL PARK
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:
- DRINKING FOUNTAIN, HOUNDWELL PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Southampton (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 42149 11771
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20/12/2012
5239
SU 4211 4/155
HOUNDWELL PARK
Drinking Fountain
II
Dated 1859 with granite inscription. Built of stone. Tapering square pillar of small blocks of rusticated ashlar with cornice, pediments on all 4 sides, the whole surmounted by ball finial. Stone seats at base on all 4 sides. Two iron lions' head masks. Presented by the Victorian Philanthropst Charles Pierre Melly (1829-1888). Melly erected the first free public drinking fountains in England in Liverpool in 1854. The idea was subsequently copied in towns and cities throughout the country, and in Scotland and Ireland. London's first fountain was not erected until five years later in 1859. He was also a promoter of physical fitness and the early Olympic movement in Britain.
Listing NGR: SU4255313582
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 135849
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Physick, R, Played in Liverpool: Charting the heritage of a city at play, (2007)
Websites
, accessed from http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/55914
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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