Drinking Fountain
DRINKING FOUNTAIN, OLD CROSS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268833
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Drinking Fountain
- Statutory Address:
- DRINKING FOUNTAIN, OLD CROSS
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268833
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Drinking Fountain
- Statutory Address 1:
- DRINKING FOUNTAIN, OLD CROSS
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:
- DRINKING FOUNTAIN, OLD CROSS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hertford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 32460 12709
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212NW OLD CROSS
817-1/16/147 (East side)
12/04/73 Drinking Fountain
GV II
Drinking fountain. 1890, reconstructed from fragments of the
former Hertford Church of St Mary the Less which were found on
the site during the construction of the Library in 1880. The
church was built before 1210 and destroyed before 1552.
The structure is clunch stone, consisting of a base, with a
small pointed arch with crude roll mouldings above a drainage
recess, projecting band with central stoup, and tablet with
central tap, above which is a rebuilt C13 lancet with
colonnettes with bell caps, and a roll moulded outer arch, and
inner reveal with continuous dog tooth ornament, and chamfered
jambs to the opening.
A tablet set in the base of the lancet opening records the
history of the structure which was erected by public
subscription.
(Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England): An
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire:
London: 1910-: 113; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N:
Hertfordshire: Harmondsworth: 1977-: 192; Green L: Hertford's
Past in pictures: Ware: 1993-: 25).
Listing NGR: TL3246012709
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461422
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 192
Green, L, Hertfords Past in Pictures, (1993), 25
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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