The Market Cross is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1953. Market cross. 5 related planning applications.
The Market Cross
- WRENN ID
- fallen-pinnacle-claret
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1953
- Type
- Market cross
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
WELLS
ST5445 MARKET PLACE 662-1/7/164 (West side) 12/11/53 The Market Cross (Formerly Listed as: MARKET STREET The Fountain)
GV II*
Market cross with fountain. c1797 by Harcourt Masters of Bath. Limestone. Triangular-plan monument in Gothic style with classical base, set in a circular pool. Rusticated base with frosted rustication to corner shafts, the NW and SW faces having pointed-arched recesses with former outlets for water; the E face has a cascade. Ogee-arched openings with flower carvings to architraves to central block above, framed by 5-shafted columns with foliate capitals and surmounted by finials with frosted rustication. Centre section is crowned by a shallow coved cornice with similar flower-type carvings, and frosted rustication finials to corners and to ogee-domed top. Pool is surrounded by wall with chamfered plinth and moulded coping; the pool is breached by a platform on the NW and SW faces. HISTORICAL NOTE: this replaced Bishop Becknynton's conduit which was demolished in 1796, and was gravity fed by a pump house in the garden of the Bishop's Palace (qv). It cost »150 to build. (Serel T: The History of Wells, published lecture of 03.05.1858: 1858-).
Listing NGR: ST5499645765
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