Drinking Fountain Near North End of Roker Park Terrace
DRINKING FOUNTAIN NEAR NORTH END OF ROKER PARK TERRACE, ROKER PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279905
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Drinking Fountain Near North End of Roker Park Terrace
- Statutory Address:
- DRINKING FOUNTAIN NEAR NORTH END OF ROKER PARK TERRACE, ROKER PARK
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- Reference:
- IOE01/01201/06
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279905
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Drinking Fountain Near North End of Roker Park Terrace
- Statutory Address 1:
- DRINKING FOUNTAIN NEAR NORTH END OF ROKER PARK TERRACE, ROKER PARK
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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.
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 NEAR NORTH END OF ROKER PARK TERRACE, ROKER PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sunderland (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 40530 59096
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ45NW ROKER PARK 920-1/5/180 (East side) Drinking fountain near north end of Roker Park Terrace
GV II
Memorial fountain. Dated 1880. Commemorates Sir Hedworth Williamson's gift of land for Roker Park to the people of Sunderland. Ashlar sandstone and granite. Tall square column on high base with Scotia moulding above swept plinth; 4 half-octagonal granite basins on round brackets are set between base and plinth. Column base has corner pilsters which support granite shafts; entablature breaks forward on these. Above, a corniced block with heraldic devices in low-relief panels; eagle finial. Inscriptions on column: N: `This memorial is further intended gratefully to keep in memory the fact that Sir Hedworth Williamson Bart.... gave 17 acres of land for the purpose of forming this public park and pleasure ground for the future use of the people of Sunderland.' S: `....erected by the scholars teachers and friends of Sunday Schools in Sunderland to commemorate the celebration of the centenary of Sunday Schools and the opening of Roker Park June 23 1880.' Names on E eroded.
Listing NGR: NZ4053059096
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391558
- 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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