Drinking fountain, Market Place

Drinking fountain, Market Place, Dalton In Furness

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197833
Date first listed:: 06-May-1976
List Entry Name:: Drinking fountain, Market Place
Statutory Address:: Drinking fountain, Market Place, Dalton In Furness

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197833
Date first listed:: 06-May-1976
List Entry Name:: Drinking fountain, Market Place
Statutory Address 1:: Drinking fountain, Market Place, Dalton In Furness

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: Drinking fountain, Market Place, Dalton In Furness

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

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Dalton Town with Newton
National Grid Reference:: SD 22647 73965

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 18/11/2020

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BARROW IN FURNESS Dalton In Furness MARKET PLACE Drinking fountain 06/05/76

GV II Drinking fountain. 1897 by Walter MacFarlane and Co of Glasgow, restored 1980s. Cast-iron. Four-columned umbrella over fountain on stone plinth. Fluted columns with ornamental bases and capitals support moulded and cusped arches with pierced spandrels and corner dragons. Roundels above each arch: that to west with cartouche inscribed 'ERECTED IN MEMORY OF HER MAJESTYS DIAMOND JUBILEE'; above it the motto 'KEEP THE PAVEMENT DRY'. Pierced canopy with crown finial. The fountain beneath has broad bowl on four-columned shaft. The rear roundel depicts Queen Victoria whilst the side roundels both depict herons.

A matching fountain exists at Askam-in-Furness, Duke Street (qv).

Listing NGR: SD2264773965

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Legacy System number:: 388511
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Mitchell, D.S., MacFarlane's Castings, Walter MacFarlane and Co. Saracen Foundry Catalogue, (Sixth Edition, Republished by Historic Scotland, 2009), 412

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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.