Full Report for Listed Buildings


Summary Description of a Listed Buildings


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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