Drinking Fountain Approximately 40 Metres North of the Town Hall

DRINKING FOUNTAIN APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES NORTH OF THE TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1182318
Date first listed:
09-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:
Drinking Fountain Approximately 40 Metres North of the Town Hall
Statutory Address:
DRINKING FOUNTAIN APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES NORTH OF THE TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1182318
Date first listed:
09-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:
Drinking Fountain Approximately 40 Metres North of the Town Hall
Statutory Address 1:
DRINKING FOUNTAIN APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES NORTH OF THE TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
DRINKING FOUNTAIN APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES NORTH OF THE TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE

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

County:
Oxfordshire
District:
South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Wallingford
National Grid Reference:
SU6072889401

Details

SU6089SE
11/112

WALLINGFORD
MARKET PLACE
(North side)
Drinking Fountain approx. 40m. N of The Town Hall

GV
II

Drinking fountain. c.1885, cast by Walter Macfarlane's foundry in Glasgow. Cast
iron. Decorative fluted columns supporting decorative domed canopy with painted
finial. Circular fountain on pedestal to centre. Presented by Alderman Hawkins
in 1885, removed to the Bullcroft, returned to original site in 1979.
("Historic Wallingford, a walk-round guide" by J and S Dewey, 1982).

Listing NGR: SU6072889401

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
249269
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Dewey, J, S, , Historic Wallingford A Walk Round Guide, (1982)

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of Drinking Fountain Approximately 40 Metres North of the Town Hall

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