Commemorative Fountain in Queens Park
COMMEMORATIVE FOUNTAIN IN QUEENS PARK, ORMEROD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244998
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Commemorative Fountain in Queens Park
- Statutory Address:
- COMMEMORATIVE FOUNTAIN IN QUEENS PARK, ORMEROD ROAD
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- Date:
- 2002-07-14
- Reference:
- IOE01/07407/01
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244998
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Commemorative Fountain in Queens Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- COMMEMORATIVE FOUNTAIN IN QUEENS PARK, ORMEROD ROAD
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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:
- COMMEMORATIVE FOUNTAIN IN QUEENS PARK, ORMEROD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Burnley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 84822 33229
Details
BURNLEY
SD83SW ORMEROD ROAD 906-1/3/106 (North side (off)) Commemorative fountain in Queen's Park
II
Commemorative monument in the form of a fountain. Dated 1893. Commemorates the gift of land by Sir John Hardy Thursby, Bart. in 1888, for the making of Queen's Park which was opened in 1893. Sandstone ashlar, rendered brick and polished pink granite. Jacobean-Renaissance style. A wide circular bowl of sandstone ashlar (lined with rendered brick) with a moulded surround and octagonal piers at the cardinal points surmounted by ball finials; and a central sandstone dome carried on 4 pairs of polished granite Ionic colonnettes mounted on a square stone plinth: the plinth has panelled sides and panelled diagonal piers with a moulded cornice carried round, and the dome has a frieze which matches this, with a prominent moulded cornice carried round, and a large obelisk finial. The front and rear panels of the plinth have lettered bronze plaques commemorating the gift of the land and the opening of the park by the donor on 1 July 1893.
Listing NGR: SD8482233229
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467159
- 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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