Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Fountain
Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, designated on 10 August 1953.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 10 August 1953
- Locality
- Caernarfon
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Caernarfon
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.13946, -4.27195
- Cadw reference
- 3940
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 1883 map "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 105 Carnarvon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 41. Anglesey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
In the centre of the street at the junction with Pool Lane.
History
Erected in 1868 to celebrate the completion of a new Water Works and therefore the improved supply of water to the town. The fountain was originally set up in Castle Square, where it had an outer basin. On this basin was an inscription: 'This fountain was opened April 25th 1868 by HRH Albert Edward Prince of Wales on the occasion of the completion of the Carnarvon Waterworks'.
Exterior
A freestone fountain comprising a basin with an octagonal concrete base and stem, the latter with blind Gothic panels, beneath a wide shallow basin with fluted head.
Reason for designation
Listed for its social-historical interest and as a well-detailed piece of street furniture, notwithstanding its incompleteness.
Nearby in the register
- 44 Pool StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Capel Salem, including forecourt gates and railingsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 54 Pool StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 56 Pool StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.