Sedgwick Fountain
SEDGWICK FOUNTAIN, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383986
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Sedgwick Fountain
- Statutory Address:
- SEDGWICK FOUNTAIN, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383986
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Sedgwick Fountain
- Statutory Address 1:
- SEDGWICK FOUNTAIN, MAIN STREET
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:
- SEDGWICK FOUNTAIN, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dent
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 70508 86997
Details
DENT
SD7086 MAIN STREET, Dent Town
162-1/25/192 (North side)
14/06/84 Sedgwick Fountain
GV II
Memorial fountain. Late C19. Commemorates Adam Sedgwick
(1785-1873), Woodwardian Professor of Geology, Cambridge
University. Roughly-hewn pink granite. Roughly-rectangular
base with a trough cut in it; massive irregular tapered pier
with arched drinking fountain cut into it, and to right of
that "ADAM SEDGWICK" inscribed in Gothick lettering, with the
dates "1785-1873" below. Forms group with Sedgwick Cottage
(qv), gateway to churchyard of Church of St Andrew (qv) and
Ivy Cottage (qv).
Listing NGR: SD7050886998
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484418
- 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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