Latitude: 53.7387 / 53°44'19"N
Longitude: -2.9635 / 2°57'48"W
OS Eastings: 336544
OS Northings: 427357
OS Grid: SD365273
Mapcode National: GBR 7TR6.6H
Mapcode Global: WH85P.G915
Plus Code: 9C5VP2QP+FJ
Entry Name: Clifton Memorial Fountain Between Station Square and Ballam Road
Listing Date: 13 January 1971
Last Amended: 15 February 1993
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1219395
English Heritage Legacy ID: 385320
ID on this website: 101219395
Location: Lytham, Fylde, Lancashire, FY8
County: Lancashire
District: Fylde
Electoral Ward/Division: Clifton
Parish: Lytham
Built-Up Area: Lytham St Anne's
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire
Church of England Parish: Lytham St John the Divine
Church of England Diocese: Blackburn
Tagged with: Memorial
LYTHAM ST ANNES
SD3627SE STATION SQUARE, Lytham 621-1/6/89 (East side) 13/01/71 Clifton Memorial Fountain between Station Square and Ballam Road (Formerly Listed as: BALLAM ROAD, Lytham (West side) Memorial in coppice to West of railway bridge, Sparrow Park)
GV II
Memorial drinking fountain. Erected c.1882 in front of Market House in Market Square, removed to this site to make way for War Wemorial in 1920s; recently restored. Commemorates John Talbot Clifton of Lytham Hall (d.1882). Sandstone ashlar under sandstone and timber shelter with red tiled pyramidal roof. The drinking fountain is approx. 1 metre square in section and approx. two and a half metres high, consisting of a square rock-faced pedestal carrying a large encircling moulded vessel which has 4 oval bowls and a square superstructure in the centre with a round-headed niche in each side containing carved dolphins, a foliated frieze and large cresting carved with the Clifton arms and motto "MORTEM AUT TRIUMPHUM". The shelter is square, with sandstone pedestals at the corners each carrying 3 wooden pillars carved with sunflowers, and a wooden frieze inscribed on all 4 sides: "ELEANOR CECILY CLIFTON ERECTED THIS FOUNTAIN / IN MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND JOHN TALBOT CLIFTON / WHO DIED AT HAMMAN RHEA ALGIERS APRIL 16th 1882 / T, IS WELL, T, IS SOMETHING, WE MAY STAND WHERE HE IN ENGLISH EARTH IS LAID". Attached to the west side of the shelter and standing on the ground is a full-width horse trough with segmentally bowed front.
Listing NGR: SD3654427357
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