Fountain
FOUNTAIN, THE ISLAND, TERRACE WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395351
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Fountain
- Statutory Address:
- FOUNTAIN, THE ISLAND, TERRACE WALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395351
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Fountain
- Statutory Address 1:
- FOUNTAIN, THE ISLAND, TERRACE WALK
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:
- FOUNTAIN, THE ISLAND, TERRACE WALK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 75211 64726
Details
THE ISLAND, TERRACE WALK 656-1/41/1679 Fountain 11/08/72
GV II
Formerly known as: Fountain BATH STREET. Fountain. 1859, altered c1890, restored 1977, rebuilt on present site 1989. By Stefano Vallerio Pieroni, sculptor. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, mild steel railings. EXTERIOR: Central circular basin with square stone superstructure, round headed keyed opening to each side, coved cornice with water-leaf enrichment, blocking course surmounted by urn. Incised lettering on basin `S Stefano Vallerio Pieroni. Fecit. 1859'. circular stone base with flowerbed, topped by serpentine railings. HISTORY: The fountain was originally erected in Stall Street at entry to Bath Street, and dispensed water from mineral spring. Originally topped by a draped male figure (Bladud) standing on a cairn, and with four seated allegorical figures in front of each column, these had been removed by 1890, when it had assumed its present appearance by replacing the figural elements with urns. The fountain (for many years overgrown with creeper and no longer working) was restored in 1977 to mark centenary of Evening Chronicle (now Bath Chronicle), and was moved to Terrace Walk in 1989. Its former site in Stall Street is marked by a plaque commemorating Bath's status as a World Heritage Site. SOURCES: John Hudson, 'Bath in Old Photographs' (1988), 22-23.
Listing NGR: ST7521164726
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510764
- 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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