Miss Bells Fountain
MISS BELLS FOUNTAIN, BUTTS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389512
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Miss Bells Fountain
- Statutory Address:
- MISS BELLS FOUNTAIN, BUTTS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389512
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Miss Bells Fountain
- Statutory Address 1:
- MISS BELLS FOUNTAIN, BUTTS ROAD
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:
- MISS BELLS FOUNTAIN, BUTTS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- East Hampshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Alton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 71293 38794
Details
ALTON
903/0/10030 BUTTS ROAD
20-NOV-01 Miss Bell's Fountain
II
Drinking fountain and combined street lamp. Erected 1879; made to the designs of Sir Charles Barry for the Metropolitan Drinking and Cattle Trough Association and donated by Miss Eliza Bell of Borovere. Polished Cornish grey granite and bronze. Octagonal stepped base with circular pedestal and bowl on top, from the centre of which rises the fountain column, on top of which there is an ornate squat bronze standard, originally surmounted by a globe-shaped lamp with a finial.
NOTE: Miss Eliza Bell wanted to have a street light at the end of her drive on the Winchester road on the edge of Alton. This gas street lamp and combined fountain was erected at her expense. A similar fountain, also donated by Miss Bell, was placed in the civic square, Crown Close, before being replaced by the War memorial and re-erected in the Public Gardens in Alton.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488194
- 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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