Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 October 1987. Drinking fountain.
Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- lunar-stair-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 October 1987
- Type
- Drinking fountain
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ST4917 MONTACUTE CP THE BOROUGH (centre) 8/105 Drinking fountain GV II Drinking fountain for men and horses. 1902, rebuilt 1983. By A. R. Powys. Ham stone. Circular plan: central shaft and 3 outer piers linked by quasi-flying buttresses; the bottom trough occupying two of the three segments, with drain holes in the returns against the central pier; outer piers square, with moulded slightly-hipped tops; central pier hexagonal, with plain frieze band and matching cap; in east face a small niche, and in frieze a panel inscribed 'ER 1902'. Powys was the son of a vicar of Montacute; the monument was erected by the village to commemorate the Coronation of Edward VII: repeatedly damaged by traffic, it was reconstructed by the National Trust (information attached to fountain)
Listing NGR: ST4980316941
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