DRINKING FOUNTAIN AT JUNCTION OF ALLSOP PLACE AND BAKER STREET

DRINKING FOUNTAIN AT JUNCTION OF ALLSOP PLACE AND BAKER STREET, ALLSOP PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1248603
Date first listed:: 22-Jul-1991
List Entry Name:: DRINKING FOUNTAIN AT JUNCTION OF ALLSOP PLACE AND BAKER STREET
Statutory Address:: DRINKING FOUNTAIN AT JUNCTION OF ALLSOP PLACE AND BAKER STREET, ALLSOP PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1248603
Date first listed:: 22-Jul-1991
List Entry Name:: DRINKING FOUNTAIN AT JUNCTION OF ALLSOP PLACE AND BAKER STREET
Statutory Address 1:: DRINKING FOUNTAIN AT JUNCTION OF ALLSOP PLACE AND BAKER STREET, ALLSOP PLACE
Statutory Address 2:: DRINKING FOUNTAIN AT JUNCTION OF ALLSOP PLACE AND BAKER STREET, BAKER STREET

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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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Statutory Address:: DRINKING FOUNTAIN AT JUNCTION OF ALLSOP PLACE AND BAKER STREET, ALLSOP PLACE
Statutory Address:: DRINKING FOUNTAIN AT JUNCTION OF ALLSOP PLACE AND BAKER STREET, BAKER STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: City of Westminster (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 27873 82175

Details

ALLSOP PLACE AND BAKER STREET TQ 2782 SE JUNCTION 34/101 Drinking Fountain II Drinking fountain. Late C19, cleaned and restored c1989. Inscribed "Presented by the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association". Polished pink granite. Design resembling a baptismal font having circular pedestal with arched niche at base accommodating rectangular dog basin, circular basin with moulded band and centralurn with spouts. The most complete surviving example in Central London of the Association's standard late C19 design. Founded in 1859 the Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountain Association (Cattle Trough added 1867) provided free fresh water to many humans and beasts at a time when ale and spirits were easier to obtain than water and most supplies contaminated. The Christian association of water with purity of spirit led evangelical -Victorians to become patrons of the Association which provided a catalogue of functional designs although some wealthy patrons used their own.

Listing NGR: TQ2787382175

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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.