Baroness Burdett Coutts Drinking Fountain
BARONESS BURDETT COUTTS DRINKING FOUNTAIN, VICTORIA PARK E9
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1235552
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Baroness Burdett Coutts Drinking Fountain
- Statutory Address:
- BARONESS BURDETT COUTTS DRINKING FOUNTAIN, VICTORIA PARK E9
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1235552
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Baroness Burdett Coutts Drinking Fountain
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARONESS BURDETT COUTTS DRINKING FOUNTAIN, VICTORIA PARK E9
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:
- BARONESS BURDETT COUTTS DRINKING FOUNTAIN, VICTORIA PARK E9
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Tower Hamlets (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 36056 83840
Details
788/33/10186 VICTORIA PARK E9 04-FEB-1985 BARONESS BURDETT COUTTS DRINKING FOUNTAIN
II*
Also Known As: VICTORIA FOUNTAIN, VICTORIA PARK E9 Also called Victoria Fountain. 1862 by H A Darbyshire. Elaborate Victorian gothic with Moorish touches. The building consists of a solid octagonal central chamber surrounded by an octagonal rib-vaulted arcade, the whole resting on a wide plinth of the same shape with a flight of steps in each face. Dressed sandstone with inlays and features of polished stones. Ogee pointed roof of shaped slates has clock faces alternating with small windows: and vane finial. Ornamental corbel table below blocking course has inlaid polychrome patterns below and cusped round openings flanking arcade arches. These are pointed, with roll and floral mouldings, and rest on pentagonal piers whose concave inner face holds a vaulting shaft. On alternate faces of core chamber, shallow shell-headed inches hold heroic sized marble boys on dolphins who pour water from urns into wide granite basins. Small door in western face with inscription over: THE VICTORIAN FOUNTAIN.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 426299
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 17 Greater London
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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