Public drinking fountain commemorating Lady Mount Temple
Public drinking fountain commemorating Lady Mount Temple, Babbacombe Downs Road, Babbacombe
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207749
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Public drinking fountain commemorating Lady Mount Temple
- Statutory Address:
- Public drinking fountain commemorating Lady Mount Temple, Babbacombe Downs Road, Babbacombe
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207749
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Public drinking fountain commemorating Lady Mount Temple
- Statutory Address 1:
- Public drinking fountain commemorating Lady Mount Temple, Babbacombe Downs Road, Babbacombe
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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.
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:
- Public drinking fountain commemorating Lady Mount Temple, Babbacombe Downs Road, Babbacombe
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Torbay (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 92472 65654
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 21 November 2024 to amend the name, address and description, and add a reference to Selected sources and reformat the text to current standards
SX9265
885-1/12/311
TORQUAY
Babbacombe
BABBACOMBE DOWNS ROAD (north east side)
Public drinking fountain commemorating Lady Mount Temple
(Formerly listed as Birdbath commemorating Baroness Mount Temple)
II
Public drinking fountain with statue by sculptor Arthur George Walker. c1903. Ashburton marble on a baluster stem with moulded foot. A green basalt cylindrical moulded plinth in the centre of the bowl supports a small, naturalistic bronze statue of Lady Mount Temple, the art collector who lived at tthe house in Beach Road now called the Babbacombe Cliff Hotel (qv).
Listing NGR: SX9247265654
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390474
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
The Late Lady Mount Temple Memorial Fountain at Babbacombe’, in The Torquay Times and South Devon Advertiser (Friday, 9th October, 1903), p8.
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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