Fountain
FOUNTAIN, WORSLEY GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215023
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Fountain
- Statutory Address:
- FOUNTAIN, WORSLEY GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215023
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Fountain
- Statutory Address 1:
- FOUNTAIN, WORSLEY GREEN
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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.
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:
- FOUNTAIN, WORSLEY GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Salford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 74989 00323
Details
In the entry for:
WORSLEY, WORSLEY GREEN,
SD 70 SW,
1/65
Fountain
29/7/66
GV
II
the description shall be amended to read as follows:
Fountain, 1905. Brick with stone dressings. A central carved stone bowl on scrolled pedestal
stands on a platform of four steps. It is surrounded by a brick superstructure which has arched
openings in each side, weathered diagonal buttreses and an entablature with debased triglyphs,
a cornice and a pierced parapet. The fountain was erected by the 3rd Earl of Ellesmere in
memory of the 3rd Duke of Bridgewater shortly after the removal of the former factory of the
Duke which stood on the site of the green. The fountain stands on the site of the former
factory chimney and re-uses bricks from it. A long Latin inscription on one of the steps starts
"I was a lofty column, where panting nostrils were made by the skill of the Cyclops, the glory
of the smith".
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WORSLEY WORSLEY GREEN
SD 70 SW
1/65 Fountain
29/7/66
G.V. II
Fountain. 1905. Brick with stone dressings. A central carved
stone bowl on scrolled pedestal stands on a platform of 4
steps. It is surrounded by a brick superstructure which has
arched openings in each side, weathered diagonal buttresses
and an entablature with debased triglyphs, a cornice and a
pierced parapet. The fountain was erected by the 1st Earl of
Ellesmere shortly after the old works of the 3rd Duke of
Bridgewater had been cleared off the green. It stands at the
base of a former chimney and re-uses bricks from it. A long
latin inscription on one of the steps starts: "I was a lofty
column, where panting nostrils were made by the skill of the
Cyclops, the glory of the smith".
Listing NGR: SD7498900323
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 400056
- 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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