Horse Trough And Drinking Fountain At Sx 9312 6410 is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1994. Drinking fountain.
Horse Trough And Drinking Fountain At Sx 9312 6410
- WRENN ID
- inner-pillar-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1994
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TORQUAY
SX9364 BABBACOMBE ROAD 885-1/15/23 (East side) Horse trough and drinking fountain at SX 9312 6410
GV II
Horse trough and drinking fountain. c1900. Signed Jenkins. Freestone and bronze. Large ogee-moulded rectangular trough, which breaks forward in the centre. Above the trough, a tall freestone tablet with bronze torches to left and right and a swan-necked pediment, tablet flanked by massive scrolled brackets with a cartouche containing an inscription with mosiac work below. Drinking fountain projects from front of tablet and is made up of 2 serpentine bronze dolphins with a fish-head spout. Inscription records erection to the memory of John Snelgrove, of St Elmo. A grand urban example of this type of street furniture.
Listing NGR: SX9312064100
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