Langston Memorial Fountain
LANGSTON MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283884
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Langston Memorial Fountain
- Statutory Address:
- LANGSTON MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283884
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Langston Memorial Fountain
- Statutory Address 1:
- LANGSTON MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN
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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:
- LANGSTON MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Churchill
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 28284 24210
Details
CHURCHILL SP2824-2924 16/50 Langston Memorial Fountain
GV II
Memorial fountain. 1870 for Julia, Countess of Ducie, in memory of her father, James Haughton Langston. Limestone memorial set in polished granite basin. Tudor Gothic style. Memorial in form of a squat, square tower with stepped chamfered plinth and embattled parapet with blind traceried frieze and band of armorial shields below. Pyramidal corner pinnacles with setback buttresses linked to central crocketed spirelet with octagonal balcony to base by flying buttresses. Pinnacles have cast-iron spikes and spirelet has iron cross. East side has ogee-headed plank door with ballflower ornament to surround and west side has spout set in trefoil-headed recess pouring water into circular trough. This is set in large square basin with apsidal projection to each face. Recessed rectangular panel on south has superscription "THIS MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN WAS ERECTED BY/HENRY JOHN 3D EARL OF DUCIE AND/JULIA HIS WIFE DAUGHTER OF/JAMES HAUGHTON LANGSTON AD1870". Similar panel on north reads "TO THE MEMORY OF JAMES HAUGHTON LANGSTON/OF SARSDEN BORN MAY 25 1796 DIED OCT. 19 1863/ AND OF JULIA FRANCES DAUGHTER OF THOMAS/1 EARL OF DUCIE BORN OCT.25 1805 DIED JUNE 25 1869". Superscription in Gothic script beginning above latter panel and running around west and south sides: "NAN:SILN:SOLUM", repeated to west, and "PERSPUPRAU 0" to south side. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p545) [2492]
Listing NGR: SP2828424210
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 253940
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 545
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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