CLIFTON MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN BETWEEN STATION SQUARE AND BALLAM ROAD

CLIFTON MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN BETWEEN STATION SQUARE AND BALLAM ROAD, STATION SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1219395
Date first listed:: 13-Jan-1971
List Entry Name:: CLIFTON MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN BETWEEN STATION SQUARE AND BALLAM ROAD
Statutory Address:: CLIFTON MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN BETWEEN STATION SQUARE AND BALLAM ROAD, STATION SQUARE

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Date:: 1999-09-05
Reference:: IOE01/01656/32
Rights:: © Mr G M Smith. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1219395
Date first listed:: 13-Jan-1971
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Feb-1993
List Entry Name:: CLIFTON MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN BETWEEN STATION SQUARE AND BALLAM ROAD
Statutory Address 1:: CLIFTON MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN BETWEEN STATION SQUARE AND BALLAM ROAD, STATION SQUARE

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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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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Statutory Address:: CLIFTON MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN BETWEEN STATION SQUARE AND BALLAM ROAD, STATION SQUARE

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County:: Lancashire
District:: Fylde (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 36544 27357

Details

LYTHAM ST ANNES

SD3627SE STATION SQUARE, Lytham 621-1/6/89 (East side) 13/01/71 Clifton Memorial Fountain between Station Square and Ballam Road (Formerly Listed as: BALLAM ROAD, Lytham (West side) Memorial in coppice to West of railway bridge, Sparrow Park)

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Memorial drinking fountain. Erected c.1882 in front of Market House in Market Square, removed to this site to make way for War Wemorial in 1920s; recently restored. Commemorates John Talbot Clifton of Lytham Hall (d.1882). Sandstone ashlar under sandstone and timber shelter with red tiled pyramidal roof. The drinking fountain is approx. 1 metre square in section and approx. two and a half metres high, consisting of a square rock-faced pedestal carrying a large encircling moulded vessel which has 4 oval bowls and a square superstructure in the centre with a round-headed niche in each side containing carved dolphins, a foliated frieze and large cresting carved with the Clifton arms and motto "MORTEM AUT TRIUMPHUM". The shelter is square, with sandstone pedestals at the corners each carrying 3 wooden pillars carved with sunflowers, and a wooden frieze inscribed on all 4 sides: "ELEANOR CECILY CLIFTON ERECTED THIS FOUNTAIN / IN MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND JOHN TALBOT CLIFTON / WHO DIED AT HAMMAN RHEA ALGIERS APRIL 16th 1882 / T, IS WELL, T, IS SOMETHING, WE MAY STAND WHERE HE IN ENGLISH EARTH IS LAID". Attached to the west side of the shelter and standing on the ground is a full-width horse trough with segmentally bowed front.

Listing NGR: SD3654427357

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Legacy System number:: 385320
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.