Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Jubilee Fountain to the NW of Pierce's Memorial
Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commemorative
- Date of designation
- 2 February 1981
- Locality
- Denbigh - Town
- Community
- Denbigh
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.18570, -3.41397
- Cadw reference
- 1051
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Within the Evan Pierce memorial garden, to the NW of Pierce's monument.
History
Erected in 1887 as one of a pair of fountains to commemorate Queen Victoria's silver jubilee. The fountains were placed within the existing Evan Pierce memorial garden which was opened in 1876.
Exterior
Cast iron painted fountain set within an octagonal basin of moulded terracotta with smooth slate copings, the terracotta with impressed chevron, nailhead and wave mouldings. The fountain itself is in the form of an opening Tulip and rises to a height of approximately 1.5m. It has a moulded base on a circular plinth with cast plaques to each face: 'Victoria Jubilee 1887'; 'Albert Edward, Prince of Wales'; 'Albert, Prince Consort', and 'Alexandra, Princess of Wales.'
A modern inlaid stone pavement surrounds the fountain basin.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a particularly good example of a Victorian cast iron municipal fountain, within the context of a contemporary memorial garden.
Group value with other listed items in the Evan Pierce memorial garden.
Nearby in the register
- Jubilee Fountain to the N of Pierce's MemorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- 84 Vale StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pierce's MemorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- MinfforddDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.