Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Granite drinking fountain in Carmarthen Park
Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, designated on 28 November 2003.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Civil
- Date of designation
- 28 November 2003
- Community
- Carmarthen
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.85566, -4.31411
- Cadw reference
- 82159
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)
- 1860 · 41. Caermathen. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 229 Carmarthen (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated some 11m S of main entrance gates.
History
Drinking fountain erected in 1900 given by Timothy Davies of Walham Green, London.
Exterior
Drinking fountain in mixed sandstone and granite, roughly 6 ft high, freestanding columnar fountain. Grey granite circular plinth, grey sandstone flared base with 4 brackets under polished grey granite bowl. From bowl rises red granite hollow cylinder with bronze spigot, inscribed in gold letters Cyflwynwyd i'r dref gan Timothy Davies Ysw O.C. 1900 Walham Green". Above is turned red sandstone top with ogee moulded base ringed by stylised trefoils and mushroom top with turned finial and metal vane.
Reason for designation
Included as typical late Victorian ornate piece of park furniture. Part of a reletively complete urban park of C1900.
Nearby in the register
- Eastern pair of lamp standards in Carmarthen ParkCivilunder 1 mi
- Main gates and gatepiers to Carmarthen ParkCivilunder 1 mi
- Christ ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- No 1 Friar's RowDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.