St Peters Pump

STOURTON WITH GASPER STOURHEAD PARK, ST 73 SE (north side), Six Wells Bottom 3/162 St Peter's Pump (formerly listed as 6.1.66 the Bristol Pump) GV I Water pump and grotto over spring. Late C15, stood near St Peter's Church at the west corner of Peter Street, Bristol, Henry Hoare erected it over the source of the River Stour in 1768. C18 rubble stone limestone grotto with rocky segmental arched niche with exaggerated keystone on north side and south side, the latter with additional recessed arch and curved back with former spring below. Pump on top; six square posts with moulded cappings to 6 ogee- arched openings with cherubs over each, six niches with semi- circular heads above each containing a seated figure, hexagonal moulded pillar and narrower shaft to top, date 1768 incised on east side of pillar. Dismantled in Bristol under 1766 Act of Parliament and moved to Stourhead by Henry Hoare, the Bristol Cross (q.v.) was erected at Stourhead in 1765. Set in picturesque pastoral setting in Six Wells Bottom, to north west of Stourhead Gardens. (K. Woodbridge, The Stourhead Landscape, 1982)

Listing NGR: ST7610335399