Description

EAST HARDWICK DARRINGTON ROAD
SE41NE
(south side)
7/31 Village Pump
6.2.69
- II
Village pump. Probably C19; restored, and shelter added, in early C20. Pump
of lead and iron with wooden cladding; timber-framed shelter with red tiled
roof. The pump is surrounded by wooden cladding, approx. 1 1/2 metres high, a
drooping lead spout on the north side and an iron handle on the west side;
and there is a sandstone slab beneath the spout, with rounded front and worn
surface. The shelter is rectangular, and open-sided, with 4 timber corner
posts and wavy braces to horizontal beams at the eaves, and a steeply-pitched
hipped roof of fishscale tiles, swept over the eaves, and with cresting to
the short ridge. The sides of the beams have incised decoration and
lettering in Gothic script running round the whole from the north side:-
"0 Ye Wells Bless Ye
The Lord Praise Him
And Magnify Him
For Ever"

Listing NGR: SE4612218471

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26577972

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)