Conduit With Retaining Wall And Pavement Steps

MODBURY CHURCH STREET SX 6451-6551 (north side) 7/139 26.1.67 Conduit with retaining wall and pavement steps

GV II

Street conduit with flanking walls and steps. 1708, part of the water supply system presented to the town by Nicholas Trist, the Lord of the Manor. Granite in squared blocks, supported by rubble walls, cast iron railings. Main conduit is set at outer pavement edge; under a heavy C19 rock-faced coping is a para- bolic blind arch out of two stones and over a carved commemorative panel with Trist around and, in raised capital letters: NICOLAUS TRIST/ARMIGER/HUIUSCE MUNICIPII/PRAEFECTUS Do.1708! About 2 metres wide overall, and up to 2.5 metres high, set to steep street. To left a rubble retaining wall runs down by ramp to street level, with 2 stone steps, and a simple railing in 5 bays. To the right a similar retaining wall with two flights of 5 stone steps and a second short run, contained by railing in 5 bays and a return. Water supply to the conduits not cut until 1950s.

Listing NGR: SX6576051628