List entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: CHURTON MEMORIAL DRINKING FOUNTAIN
List entry Number: 1307452
Location
CHURTON MEMORIAL DRINKING FOUNTAIN, BROWNLOW STREET
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
| County |
District |
District Type |
Parish |
| Shropshire | Unitary Authority | Whitchurch Urban |
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 01-Mar-1988
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 260592
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List entry Description
Summary of Building
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
WHITCHURCH URBAN C.P. BROWNLOW STREET (west
SJ 5441
SJ 54508 41565 side)
8/39 Churton Memorial
- Drinking Fountain
GV II
Drinking fountain, Dated 1882. Banded pink and grey granite base and banded
red and grey sandstone ashlar upper parts. Octagonal plan. In a Gothic
Revival style. Base with moulded stone cornice, steps up to chamfered-
arched recess to front and back with copper lion-mask spouts and semi-circular
bowls, and former semi-circular animal troughs to each side (flower beds at
time of survey - November 1986). Inscription around top: "EVERY : ONE :
THAT : DRINKETH / OF : THIS : WATER / SHALL THIRST : AGAIN / BUT :
WHOSOEVER / DRINKETH : OF : THE : WATER : THAT / I : SHALL : GIVE : HIM /
SHALL : NEVER : THIRST / ST JOHN : CHAP 4: VER 13 & 14". Chamfered
offset to top part. Moulded arches to front and back, each with 2 cinquefoil-
headed lights (but no central shaft), blind tracery, flanking square buttress
with battlemented caps, and crocketed gable above with finial. Each side with
2 cinquefoil-headed blind panels, octagonal pier with moulded base and
cap, and disused gas-lamp fitting. Octagonal pinnacle above consisting
of blind ogee trefoil-headed panels to sides with gables above, and short
crocketed spire with wrought-iron cross finial. Carved panel in arch to east
depicting 2 women drawing water from a well. Inscription in arch to west
not completely legible at time of survey (November 1986): THIS FOUNTAIN WAS/
ERECTED BY JOHN CHURTON / OF ... / IN LOVING MEMORY OF / HIS PARENTS AND...
WIFE / ANN CHURTON AND AS / A MEMORIAL OF HIS / AFFECTIONATE & ENDURING /
INTEREST IN THE WELFARE / OF HIS NATIVE TOWN 1882". The fountain formerly
stood at the junction of Green End, Brownlow Street, Talbot Street and
Station Road, but when the by-pass was built in 1924 it became a hindrance
to traffic, and was eventually moved to its present site in the early 1930's.
Whitchurch Area Archaeological Group, Whitchurch Remembered (1979), ill.71.
Listing NGR: SJ5450941566
Selected Sources
- Book Reference - Title: Whitchurch Remembered - Date: 1979 - Page References: ill 71
National Grid Reference: SJ 54509 41566
Map
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