Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
11301
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/09/1986
Date of Amendment
29/09/1986
Name of Property
Randall Memorial Drinking Fountain
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Community
Bridgend
Town
Locality
Easting
290668
Northing
179727
Street Side
Location
At the cross-roads, on the corner with Court Road.
Description
Broad Class
Commemorative
Period
History
Dated 1860, by J W Hugall of London. Victorian Gothic monument; freestone with marble dressings. Commemorative plaque to W face reads "Erected by Caroline, Countess of Dunraven, in memory of her friend John Randall Esq who for thirty-three years managed her estates AD 1860".
Exterior
Reliquary type top with pyramidal spirelet and French Gothic crocket gabled arch with coat of arms to W Marble faced pilasters below linked by foliage band; trefoil headed openings to each face with ornamental ironwork grilles, except to E side. Middle stage of blind shouldered recesses, black lettered marble plaque to W side. Deeper recesses to base flanked by squat pilasters with foliage capitals; semicircular marble basins on stone corbels. Stepped base.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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