Sedgwick Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. Fountain.

Sedgwick Fountain

WRENN ID: long-sandstone-moth
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Yorkshire Dales National Park
Country: England
Date first listed: 14 June 1984
Type: Fountain
Source: Historic England listing

Description

DENT

SD7086 MAIN STREET, Dent Town 162-1/25/192 (North side) 14/06/84 Sedgwick Fountain

GV II

Memorial fountain. Late C19. Commemorates Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873), Woodwardian Professor of Geology, Cambridge University. Roughly-hewn pink granite. Roughly-rectangular base with a trough cut in it; massive irregular tapered pier with arched drinking fountain cut into it, and to right of that "ADAM SEDGWICK" inscribed in Gothick lettering, with the dates "1785-1873" below. Forms group with Sedgwick Cottage (qv), gateway to churchyard of Church of St Andrew (qv) and Ivy Cottage (qv).

Listing NGR: SD7050886998

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