JUBILEE DRINKING FOUNTAIN BUILT INTO CHURCHYARD HALL

JUBILEE DRINKING FOUNTAIN BUILT INTO CHURCHYARD HALL, FINKLE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1384123
Date first listed:: 18-Oct-1999
List Entry Name:: JUBILEE DRINKING FOUNTAIN BUILT INTO CHURCHYARD HALL
Statutory Address:: JUBILEE DRINKING FOUNTAIN BUILT INTO CHURCHYARD HALL, FINKLE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1384123
Date first listed:: 18-Oct-1999
List Entry Name:: JUBILEE DRINKING FOUNTAIN BUILT INTO CHURCHYARD HALL
Statutory Address 1:: JUBILEE DRINKING FOUNTAIN BUILT INTO CHURCHYARD HALL, FINKLE STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: JUBILEE DRINKING FOUNTAIN BUILT INTO CHURCHYARD HALL, FINKLE STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Sedbergh
National Park:: YORKSHIRE DALES
National Grid Reference:: SD 65742 92112

Details

SEDBERGH

SD6592SE FINKLE STREET, Sedbergh Town 162-1/26/396 (West side) Jubilee Drinking Fountain built into churchyard wall

GV II

Drinking fountain with side-benches. Erected in 1897 when Finkle Street was widened to commemorate the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria. Sandstone ashlar with black marble plaque and brass cup. Classical style. In the form of a pedimented aedicule, with console-footed fluted pilasters framing a recessed centre, a pulvinated frieze inscribed "1837" over the left pilaster, "QUEEN'S DIAMOND JUBILEE" in the centre, and "1897" over the right-hand pilaster. The centre has a convex bowl with a drinking cup on a chain, and a small black marble plaque with an inscription recording the cause and occasion. The pediment contains relief sculpture inscribed "THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA AND OUR SAVIOUR AT THE WELL" (now protected by a perspex screen). To left and right are integral stone side-benches. Forms group with Church of St Andrew (qv).

Listing NGR: SD6574092111

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.