Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Wedgwood Memorial Fountain
Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, designated on 26 April 1977.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commemorative
- Date of designation
- 26 April 1977
- Town
- Tenby
- Community
- Tenby
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.67161, -4.69894
- Cadw reference
- 6293
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)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 245 Pembroke (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Formerly sited in roadway outside National Westminster Bank.
History
Memorial drinking fountain, 1867, to Lt Col Thomas Josiah Wedgwood, 1798-1860, designed by F R Kempson, and presented by Dr F D Dyster, mayor and eminent biologist, friend of T H Huxley. Wedgwood was a personal friend of the doctor, a grandson of Josiah Wedgwood, and a career soldier. Recorded when finished as being made of four types of stone: Forest of Dean, Hannam, Red Mansfield and Combe Down, with jets of white marble and a gas lamp on top. The fountain was removed after repeated damage from traffic, and is (2001) in storage, planned for re-erection.
Exterior
Drinking fountain with a shallow octagonal basin set in the top of a tall octagonal stone pedestal ornamented with slender stone banded columns with capitals. An identical but narrower octagonal structure rises out of the basin at the top of the lower pedestal. In N and S sides of the lower pedestal are rectangular basins recessed behind cusped headed openings. In E side of the lower pedestal is a tablet inscribed: "This fountain was given by Dr Dyster in memory of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Wedgwood 3rd Guards, of St Mary’s Hill Tenby who died 7 November 1860, aged 62. He fought at Waterloo."
Reason for designation
Included on list as an ornate Victorian memorial fountain and retained despite removal, as intention is to reinstate.
Nearby in the register
- Premises occupied by Tenby Rock and FudgeCommercialunder 1 mi
- National Westminster BankCommercialunder 1 mi
- Nos 1 & 2 Gower HousesCommercialunder 1 mi
- Clifton HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.