Wishing Well With Flanking Walls
WISHING WELL WITH FLANKING WALLS, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272098
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Wishing Well With Flanking Walls
- Statutory Address:
- WISHING WELL WITH FLANKING WALLS, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272098
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Dec-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Wishing Well With Flanking Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- WISHING WELL WITH FLANKING WALLS, CHURCH STREET
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:
- WISHING WELL WITH FLANKING WALLS, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Weymouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 66083 85180
Details
WEYMOUTH
SY6685 CHURCH STREET, Upwey 873-1/5/546 (West side) 12/12/53 Wishing Well, with flanking walls (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET, Upwey (West side) Wishing Well)
GV II
Spring head at source of the River Wey. Mid to late C19, rebuilt 1991. Rubble, some brickwork in reveals, stone slab roof, stone and concrete paving. A 2-bay recess built into the hillside, fronted with 2 flat 4-centred arches with rock-faced stone voussoirs, under a drip mould, and with a parapet with merlons above. The arches are carried on a central cast-iron column with circular shaft and base, and Early English leaf capital to an octagonal abacus. Above the arches is an inset stone panel with the letters C T I G in Gothic script. To the left the stonework dies into a retaining wall approx 5m long, and to the right as a boundary wall, approx 1.75m high and approx 10m long, but with a small recessed area, formerly occupied by an access gate from the adjoining lane. In front of this construction, in an area of paving, is a roughly circular well-head in grotto-like open-textured stone, approx 2.5m in diameter. HISTORICAL NOTE: this is referred to in the Torrington Diaries for 1782 as Upway Spring, a fashionable place of resort from Weymouth. It continues to attract pilgrims.
Listing NGR: SY6608385180
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467419
- 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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