Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Drinking Water Fountain in Maypole
Whitecastle, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Maypole, Whitecastle, Monmouthshire, designated on 30 November 2022.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 30 November 2022
- Welsh name
- Pistyll Dwr Yfed Cyhoeddus ym Maypole
- Locality
- Maypole
- Community
- Whitecastle
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.84457, -2.77066
- Cadw reference
- 87881
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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)
- 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)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · 233 Monmouth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
South side of the unregistered road through Maypole, at the junction with the road to St Maughans.
History
Dated 1897 (see plaque), possibly to commemorate Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. The 1897 estate account of the Rolls family ancestral seat at The Hendre show an entry for “Maypole water supply. New water service for cottages at The Maypole & Perthgaloed Farm” at a total cost of £204 12s 3d. Included in this cost is £6 17s 9d for noted professional water diviner Melrose Swale Leicester Gataker; and £109 16s 4d for ironmongery by Taylor & Jones situated at 13 Monnow Street, Monmouth, whose fox-head spout may allude to Lord Llangattock’s connection with the local hunt.
Exterior
Roadside public drinking water fountain housed in a decorative structure of roughly squared and rusticated dressed stone. Structure comprises a steeply arched opening with stone voussoirs and finial and short flanking pillars with ogee caps. The niche contains a square stone basin and an iron water spout in the form of a fox’s head. Above it, a cast-iron plaque reading “ERECTED BY / LORD LLANGATTOCK / FOR THE BENEFIT / OF HIS TENANTS / & NEIGHBOURS / JUNE 1897”.
Reason for designation
Included as an unusually elaborate example of a drinking water fountain, which is of special historic interest as part of a C19 village water supply provided by a philanthropic estate.
Nearby in the register
- Farmhouse at Church FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Barn at Church FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Church of St MaughanReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Trivor Farmhouse (aka Tre-Ivor)Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.