DRINKING FOUNTAIN AND SUNDIAL

DRINKING FOUNTAIN AND SUNDIAL, ABBEY PRECINCTS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245038
Date first listed:: 30-Oct-1997
List Entry Name:: DRINKING FOUNTAIN AND SUNDIAL
Statutory Address:: DRINKING FOUNTAIN AND SUNDIAL, ABBEY PRECINCTS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245038
Date first listed:: 30-Oct-1997
List Entry Name:: DRINKING FOUNTAIN AND SUNDIAL
Statutory Address 1:: DRINKING FOUNTAIN AND SUNDIAL, ABBEY PRECINCTS

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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Location

Statutory Address:: DRINKING FOUNTAIN AND SUNDIAL, ABBEY PRECINCTS

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County:: Suffolk
District:: West Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Bury St. Edmunds
National Grid Reference:: TL 85618 64192

Details

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SE ABBEY PRECINCTS 639-1/8/100 Drinking Fountain and Sundial

II

Drinking fountain and sundial. 1870. Formerly at the south end of The Traverse; removed to the Abbey Gardens in 1939. Stone. A hexagonal raised base is flanked by 3 flower borders; in its centre a wide shallow bowl on a pedestal supports a high fluted column with 4 former water outlets and a lead plaque dated 1870 on its base. The column has an enriched Ionic capital, surmounted by a rectangular pedestal with a sundial on its south face and topped by an urn.

Listing NGR: TL8561864192

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Legacy System number:: 466467
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.