Hitchman Fountain
HITCHMAN FOUNTAIN, JEPHSON GARDENS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381322
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Hitchman Fountain
- Statutory Address:
- HITCHMAN FOUNTAIN, JEPHSON GARDENS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381322
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Hitchman Fountain
- Statutory Address 1:
- HITCHMAN FOUNTAIN, JEPHSON GARDENS
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:
- HITCHMAN FOUNTAIN, JEPHSON GARDENS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Warwick (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Royal Leamington Spa
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 31898 65580
Details
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3165NE JEPHSON GARDENS
1208-1/7/184 Hitchman Fountain
25/03/70
II
Fountain. Erected 1869. Designed by John Cundall. Millstone
grit and red polished granite with sandstone ashlar and Coade
stone dressings. Gothic Revival Early English style. Circular
basin with low walls with cavetto moulding and roll-edged
copings. Fountain base a quatrefoil with imposed square on
plan, stepped. Then tooled plinths with pilasters with foliate
caps to angles surmounted by pyramidal caps. From these flying
buttresses abut centre, with base square on plan surmounted by
cylindrical shaft, then further plinth square on plan
surrounded by 4 columns with elaborate foliate capitals
supporting quatrefoil basin with acroteria. 4 banded column
clusters support smaller quatrefoil basin surmounted by
pinnacle with finials. Inscribed: 'IN MEMORY OF JOHN HITCHMAN
WHO DIED ... 1867'.
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 59; Manning JC (Facsimile by Warwickshire
County Library 1988): Glimpses of our Local Past .. Royal
Leamington Spa: Royal Leamington Spa: 1895-).
Listing NGR: SP3189865580
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481682
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Manning, J C, Glimpses of our Local Past... Royal Leamington Spa, (1895)
Cave, L F, Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development, (1988), 59
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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