The Fountain and Basin
THE FOUNTAIN AND BASIN, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347032
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Fountain and Basin
- Statutory Address:
- THE FOUNTAIN AND BASIN, THE GREEN
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347032
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Fountain and Basin
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FOUNTAIN AND BASIN, THE GREEN
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:
- THE FOUNTAIN AND BASIN, THE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Welton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 95824 27284
Details
WELTON THE GREEN SE 9527 (centre) 9/77 The Fountain and Basin II GV Fountain. Dated in inscription 187- (last digit illegible). Ashlar. Perpendicular style. Octagonal pier with string course and floral panels to top, cornice ornamented with diaper work and brattishing and with grotesque figures to each corner, (heads all missing). Frieze of shields beneath an ogee cap with poppyhead finial. Beneath the string is an inscription in a Gothic script "In memory of Anne Popple ad 1874. I will give (a) vow God, that if (you have) a thirst, of the fountain of the water of life, (drink) freely." Adjoining the fountain is a hollowed out stone, forming part of the base: a spout, now missing, led water into the basin.
Listing NGR: SE9582427284
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 164835
- 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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