Drinking Fountain in Recreation Ground
DRINKING FOUNTAIN IN RECREATION GROUND, LEYLAND STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386814
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Drinking Fountain in Recreation Ground
- Statutory Address:
- DRINKING FOUNTAIN IN RECREATION GROUND, LEYLAND STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386814
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Drinking Fountain in Recreation Ground
- Statutory Address 1:
- DRINKING FOUNTAIN IN RECREATION GROUND, LEYLAND 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:
- DRINKING FOUNTAIN IN RECREATION GROUND, LEYLAND STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bury (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 80635 07861
Details
SD 80 NW,
326/8/10041
LEYLAND STREET,
Drinking Fountain in Recreation Ground
II
Memorial fountain. 1898. Designed by J D Mould, architect, of Silver Street Chambers, Bury. Paid for by public subscription and commemorating the life of Abraham Barlow. Grey Aberdeen granite, approximately 2.5m high; a solid 3-stage pier with ball finial on a step plinth. It stands on a square foundation of four large sandstone slabs. On the north side, facing the entrance to the recreation ground: a semicircular bowl with remains of pipe and fixing for a drinking cup is set in a round-arched recess, and above it a bronze plaque with a medallion portrait of Alderman Barlow in bas relief signed F G Floyd SCS'. South side: an inscription carved in ornate capital letters in shallow relief. 'This fountain was erected by public subscription to the memory of the late Alderman A Barlow JP of Wellfield and Hampson Mills, Bury, as a testimony of the esteem in which he was held by those among whom he lived and laboured and to commemorate the gift of this Recreation Ground to the town of Bury by his son John Barlow Esq JP'. There is a small round-arched recess at the base on the east side, and remains of piping.
Listing NGR: SD8063507861
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474223
- 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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