FOUNTAIN IN CLOISTER GARTH AT NEWSTEAD ABBEY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1236816
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-1966
List Entry Name:: FOUNTAIN IN CLOISTER GARTH AT NEWSTEAD ABBEY
Statutory Address:: FOUNTAIN IN CLOISTER GARTH AT NEWSTEAD ABBEY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1236816
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-1966
List Entry Name:: FOUNTAIN IN CLOISTER GARTH AT NEWSTEAD ABBEY
Statutory Address 1:: FOUNTAIN IN CLOISTER GARTH AT NEWSTEAD ABBEY

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.

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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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Location

Statutory Address:: FOUNTAIN IN CLOISTER GARTH AT NEWSTEAD ABBEY

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County:: Nottinghamshire
District:: Gedling (District Authority)
Parish:: Newstead
National Grid Reference:: SK 54182 53767

Details

NEWSTEAD NEWSTEAD PARK SK 55 SW 1/102 Fountain in Cloister Garth at Newstead Abbey 13.10.66 G.V. II

Fountain. C16. Removed and restored 1720. Re-sited early C19. Ashlar. Chamfered plinth, moulded string course, traceried band, crenellated parapet. 2 stages. Octagonal plan. Set in round pool with moulded coping. Lower stage has scalloped round headed niches. Those to east and west have round basins with lion mask spouts. Parapet has remains of 8 animal figures forming buttresses to smaller upper stage. Moulded rim has to south east, tablet inscribed 'LB' and on opposite side, tablet inscribed '1720 W.B.'. Upper stage has nodal shafts and lozenge band. Crocketed parapet has remains of 7 grotesque animal and 2 human figures.

Listing NGR: SK5418253767

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Legacy System number:: 425357
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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 33 Nottinghamshire,

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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.