Bathing Pool And Well In The Garden Of Bath Garden Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1967. Bathing pool.
Bathing Pool And Well In The Garden Of Bath Garden Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sunken-chancel-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1967
- Type
- Bathing pool
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BEESTON C.P. (Off) HORSLEY LANE SJ 55 NW 5/15 Bathing pool and well in the garden of Bath Garden Cottage. 1.3.67 (Formerly listed as Bath) GV II
Bathing pool. Dated 1684 on inscribed tablet which read:-
Sinitati Sacrum Obstructum reserat Duruinterit Humida Siccat
Debile fortificat Sitamen arte bibis Dan jackson Scul P Anno D 1684 Which being translated, is:
To fortify the sacred soundness of the body this was dug in the hard dry earth to strengthen the infirm and soundly quench the thirsty.
Red sandstone ashlar rendered with cement with paved sandstone surround. Square pool with a flight of stone steps to one of the corners and to the corner diagonally opposite a spout allowing the water to fall into a dished bowl. To one side amidst a rockery of roughly hewn stone is the rectangular datestone which has a moulded border. To one side of the pool is the well which is similar of rectangular plan and has a set of steps leading down into it.
Listing NGR: SJ5335258373
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