Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Randall Memorial Drinking Fountain
Bridgend, Bridgend, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bridgend, designated on 29 September 1986.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commemorative
- Date of designation
- 29 September 1986
- Community
- Bridgend
- Unitary authority
- Bridgend
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.50586, -3.57669
- Cadw reference
- 11301
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 262 Pontypridd (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 262 Pontypridd (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
At the cross-roads, on the corner with Court Road.
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.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Former Castle HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- The Welsh ConnectionCommercialunder 1 mi
- The Old Police StationCivilunder 1 mi
- Property to right of former Castle HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.