Pump In Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 July 1951. Pump.

Pump In Market Place

WRENN ID
roaming-parapet-pine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Country
England
Date first listed
17 July 1951
Type
Pump
Source
Historic England listing

Description

1. 774 MARKET PLACE

Pump in Market Place TL 0338 1/11 17.7.51.

II

2. Stone obelisk on a vermiculated plinth, fitted respectively with iron handle and spout for use as the Town Pump. Iron socket at apex for a lamp (which survives only in design by Chambers in the collection of Mrs Shuttleworth of Old Warden Park, near Biggleswade). At the foot of the obelisk the distance to an important town in each direction is engraved on the appropriate face. Beneath these distances tile following inscription runs round the 4 faces: ERECTED BY/THE EARL OF/UPPER OSSORY/AD MDCCLXXXV. AM

Listing NGR: TL0348538126

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