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
6293
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/04/1977
Date of Amendment
28/03/2002
Name of Property
Wedgwood Memorial Fountain
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Tenby
Town
Tenby
Locality
Easting
213471
Northing
200432
Street Side
S
Location
Formerly sited in roadway outside National Westminster Bank.
Description
Broad Class
Commemorative
Period
History
Memorial drinking fountain, 1867, to Lt Col Thomas Josiah Wedgwood, 1798-1860, designed by F R Kempson, and presented by Dr F D Dyster, mayor and eminent biologist, friend of T H Huxley. Wedgwood was a personal friend of the doctor, a grandson of Josiah Wedgwood, and a career soldier. Recorded when finished as being made of four types of stone: Forest of Dean, Hannam, Red Mansfield and Combe Down, with jets of white marble and a gas lamp on top. The fountain was removed after repeated damage from traffic, and is (2001) in storage, planned for re-erection.
Exterior
Drinking fountain with a shallow octagonal basin set in the top of a tall octagonal stone pedestal ornamented with slender stone banded columns with capitals. An identical but narrower octagonal structure rises out of the basin at the top of the lower pedestal. In N and S sides of the lower pedestal are rectangular basins recessed behind cusped headed openings. In E side of the lower pedestal is a tablet inscribed: "This fountain was given by Dr Dyster in memory of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Wedgwood 3rd Guards, of St Mary’s Hill Tenby who died 7 November 1860, aged 62. He fought at Waterloo."
Interior
Reason for designation
Included on list as an ornate Victorian memorial fountain and retained despite removal, as intention is to reinstate.
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