Spa Pump at Factory of John Sawtell and Company
SPA PUMP AT FACTORY OF JOHN SAWTELL AND COMPANY, THE MIDLANDS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1364100
- Date first listed:
- 13-Nov-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Spa Pump at Factory of John Sawtell and Company
- Statutory Address:
- SPA PUMP AT FACTORY OF JOHN SAWTELL AND COMPANY, THE MIDLANDS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1364100
- Date first listed:
- 13-Nov-1962
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Spa Pump at Factory of John Sawtell and Company
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPA PUMP AT FACTORY OF JOHN SAWTELL AND COMPANY, THE MIDLANDS
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:
- SPA PUMP AT FACTORY OF JOHN SAWTELL AND COMPANY, THE MIDLANDS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Holt
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 86248 62131
Details
ST 86 SE HOLT THE MIDLANDS (west side)
5/71 Spa Pump at factory of John Sawtell and Co., 13-11-62 (formerly listed as The Spa Well)
GV II
Spa pump of former spa. C18. Consists of niche on south end of factory, almost certainly reset. Limestone columns with egg and dart moulded capitals to marble entablature with Latin inscription. Back wall of recess has relief-carved marble urn with inscription recording spa here, visited by Lady Lisle and the Rev. James Lewis, 1720. Mineral waters were discovered here late C17 and developed as a small spa in early C18, it continued in use until early C19. (Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine, 55, 1954)
Listing NGR: ST8624862131
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 314519
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine in Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, Vol. 55, (1954)
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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