Fountain
FOUNTAIN, BROWN'S LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283841
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Fountain
- Statutory Address:
- FOUNTAIN, BROWN'S LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283841
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Fountain
- Statutory Address 1:
- FOUNTAIN, BROWN'S LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- FOUNTAIN, PLAYING CLOSE
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:
- FOUNTAIN, BROWN'S LANE
- Statutory Address:
- FOUNTAIN, PLAYING CLOSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Charlbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 35814 19578
Details
CHARLBURY SP3519 PLAYING CLOSE 5/87 (North-West side) Fountain GV II
Fountain. 1897 by John Kibble. Ashlar. Jacobethan style; octagonal plan. Plinth with round half columns supports arcade of rounded arches with moulded imposts and keyblocks. VR and inscription on entablature under moulded cornice with circles in pediments, one mounted by crowns. Central cupola in form of a crown has ball finial. Inscription records that the fountain was presented by Harvey du Cros of Cornbury Park to commemorate the visit of Queen Victoria in 1886, the provision of piped water in the town in 1896 and the Diamond Jubilee in 1897. VCH Oxfordshire 10 (1972), 131-132.
Listing NGR: SP3581319580
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 254229
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1972), 131-32
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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