Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Jubilee Pump
Overton, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Overton, Wrexham, designated on 15 March 1994.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Water Supply and Drainage
- Date of designation
- 15 March 1994
- Community
- Overton
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.96921, -2.93350
- Cadw reference
- 14442
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV.Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. a. England ab sich: Shire:15-17, 33 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set back in a small brick-walled recess immediately adjoining the former Police Station.
History
Pump, dated 1887 and erected to commemorate the Jubilee of Queen Victoria.
Exterior
Ashlar. Chamfered and pedimented square section stone column on chamfered plinth, surmounted by ball finial. Pump mechanism in wooden case against rear face, with basin served by small lead spout projecting from the front. Inscribed with initials VR and the date in the front face, and with foliate low-relief in the pediment.
Reason for designation
A good example of a pump, surviving in working order.
Nearby in the register
- Gwydyr House (former RS & P Garden Machinery Specialists)Domesticunder 1 mi
- 2nd outbuilding to Gwydyr HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Lloyd's Bank PremisesDomesticunder 1 mi
- 1st Outbuilding to Gwydyr HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.