Drinking Fountain at North End of Central Avenue NZ 3986 5666
DRINKING FOUNTAIN AT NORTH END OF CENTRAL AVENUE NZ 3986 5666, MOWBRAY EXTENSION PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208918
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Drinking Fountain at North End of Central Avenue NZ 3986 5666
- Statutory Address:
- DRINKING FOUNTAIN AT NORTH END OF CENTRAL AVENUE NZ 3986 5666, MOWBRAY EXTENSION PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208918
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Drinking Fountain at North End of Central Avenue NZ 3986 5666
- Statutory Address 1:
- DRINKING FOUNTAIN AT NORTH END OF CENTRAL AVENUE NZ 3986 5666, MOWBRAY EXTENSION 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 AT NORTH END OF CENTRAL AVENUE NZ 3986 5666, MOWBRAY EXTENSION PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sunderland (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 39860 56663
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ3956NE MOWBRAY EXTENSION PARK 920-1/20/146 (North side) 10/11/78 Drinking fountain at north end of Central Avenue NZ 3986 5666 (Formerly Listed as: MOWBRAY EXTENSION PARK Drinking fountain at north end of Central Avenue)
GV II
Drinking fountain in north extension of Mowbray Park . Dated 1878. Founder's plate Glenfield & Kennedy Ltd., Kilmarnock; for the Order of Oddfellows in memory of William Hall; gift to the Corporation of Sunderland. Cast-iron. Small domed canopy with elaborate foliage and 4 cusped arches on columns shelters bollard-shaped drinking fountain. Above each arch an escutcheon and motto. On N and S: KEEP THE PAVEMENT DRY, and NIL DESPERANDUM AUSPICE DEO 1878, (the borough's motto) with symbols of borough and of Oddfellows. On E and W: AMICITIA AMOR ET VERITAS 1878 with on E, IN MEMORY OF WM HALL PPGM OF THE SUNDERLAND DISTRICT INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODDFELLOWS and on W, PRESENTED TO THE CORPORATION OF SUNDERLAND BY THE ODDFELLOWS NU.
Listing NGR: NZ3986056663
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391523
- 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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