DRINKING FOUNTAIN ATTACHED TO CHURCH WALLS AND RAILING TO CHURCH OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS

DRINKING FOUNTAIN ATTACHED TO CHURCH WALLS AND RAILING TO CHURCH OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS, ADELAIDE STREET WC2

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1277825
Date first listed:: 23-Jul-1991
List Entry Name:: DRINKING FOUNTAIN ATTACHED TO CHURCH WALLS AND RAILING TO CHURCH OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS
Statutory Address:: DRINKING FOUNTAIN ATTACHED TO CHURCH WALLS AND RAILING TO CHURCH OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS, ADELAIDE STREET WC2

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1277825
Date first listed:: 23-Jul-1991
List Entry Name:: DRINKING FOUNTAIN ATTACHED TO CHURCH WALLS AND RAILING TO CHURCH OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS
Statutory Address 1:: DRINKING FOUNTAIN ATTACHED TO CHURCH WALLS AND RAILING TO CHURCH OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS, ADELAIDE STREET WC2

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 ATTACHED TO CHURCH WALLS AND RAILING TO CHURCH OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS, ADELAIDE STREET WC2

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 30150 80527

Details

TQ 3080 NW 72/205 ADELAIDE STREET, WC2 Drinking fountain attached to Church walls and railing to Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields

II Memorial drinking fountain attached to church walls and railings to Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields. c1886, provided through the Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association. Granite. Plain arch of battered base with central round-arched niche for fountain and segmental arched niche for dog bowl at base. Inscription to the memory of William Gilson Humphry, vicar of the parish. Restored and replica bronze lion mash spout installed c1989.

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 and purity of spirit led evangelical Victorians to become patrons of the Association which provided a catalogue of functional designs but some wealthy patrons used their own.

Listing NGR: TQ3015080527

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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.