Moore Memorial Fountain
MOORE MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1327148
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Moore Memorial Fountain
- Statutory Address:
- MOORE MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN, MARKET PLACE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1327148
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Moore Memorial Fountain
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOORE MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN, MARKET PLACE
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:
- MOORE MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wigton
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 25491 48386
Details
NY 2548 WIGTON MARKET PLACE (Centre of) Wigton
14/85 Moore Memorial Fountain
II
Drinking fountain memorial. 1872-3 by J.T. Knowles with panels by Thomas Woolner; inscribed THIS MEMORIAL WAS ERECTED BY GEORGE MOORE OF WHITEHALL, HIGH SHERIFF OF CUMBERLAND AD 1872, IN LOVING MEMORY OF HIS WIFE, ELIZA, WHO DIED ON THE 4TH OF DECEMBER, 1858. Polished Shap granite; aluminium bronze panels; gilt decoration. Square base with projecting fountain bowls on each face. Stepped plinth and square shaft, with panel on each face representing the Acts of Mercy, 340 separate castings by Messrs Hardman of Birmingham to designs by Woolner. Egg and tongue decorated cornice, under 4 pediments enclosing medallion busts of Mrs Moore also by Woolner. Pyramid spire with angle decorations and each face cut away in a foliated gilded pattern; ball and cross gilded bronze finial. Cost £12,000. See T.W. Carrick, History of Wigton, 1949, pp161-3.
Listing NGR: NY2549148386
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 72040
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Carrick, T W, History of Wigton, (1949), 161-3
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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