Sewer Ventilation Pipe Adjoining North West Corner Of 1-1A Barnstaple Street (Not Included)

BIDEFORD

SS42NE BARNSTAPLE STREET, East-The-Water 842-1/2/252 (East side) 04/02/91 Sewer ventilation pipe adjoining NW corner of 1-1A Barnstaple Street (not incl)

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Sewer ventilation pipe. Probably 1901-2. Engineer was Baldwin Latham of Parliament Mansions, Westminster; contractor E Ellis of Bideford. A tall, cylindrical iron pipe. Designed as a tapering Gothic shaft, with pedestal, moulded base and foliated capital; halfway up, a projecting moulded band disguising a joint. The shaft is surmounted by an arrow pointing the direction of the sewer. Above it is a ball with open lugs facing in all 4 directions, the whole finished with a tall finial encircled by a coronet. The shaft is moulded with the maker's name; the upper part is illegible, but the remainder reads GLASGOW. SARACEN FOUNDRY. It is matched by an identical one at the other end of East-the-Water, in Torrington Street (qv). It has the same maker's stamp and the two probably date from the re-laying of the East-the-Water sewers (including the installation of ventilators) in 1901-2. (Bideford Weekly Gazette: 1900-1902: 23.10.1900; 17.09.01).

Listing NGR: SS4577526577