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Latitude: 54.2778 / 54°16'39"N
Longitude: -2.4544 / 2°27'15"W
OS Eastings: 370508
OS Northings: 486998
OS Grid: SD705869
Mapcode National: GBR CL9Z.F9
Mapcode Global: WH94C.8QHY
Plus Code: 9C6V7GHW+46
Entry Name: Sedgwick Fountain
Listing Date: 14 June 1984
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1383986
English Heritage Legacy ID: 484418
ID on this website: 101383986
Location: Dent, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, LA10
County: Cumbria
District: South Lakeland
Civil Parish: Dent
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria
Church of England Parish: Dent with Cowgill
Church of England Diocese: Carlisle
Tagged with: Fountain
DENT
SD7086 MAIN STREET, Dent Town
162-1/25/192 (North side)
14/06/84 Sedgwick Fountain
GV II
Memorial fountain. Late C19. Commemorates Adam Sedgwick
(1785-1873), Woodwardian Professor of Geology, Cambridge
University. Roughly-hewn pink granite. Roughly-rectangular
base with a trough cut in it; massive irregular tapered pier
with arched drinking fountain cut into it, and to right of
that "ADAM SEDGWICK" inscribed in Gothick lettering, with the
dates "1785-1873" below. Forms group with Sedgwick Cottage
(qv), gateway to churchyard of Church of St Andrew (qv) and
Ivy Cottage (qv).
Listing NGR: SD7050886998
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