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Latitude: 52.5602 / 52°33'36"N
Longitude: -3.1496 / 3°8'58"W
OS Eastings: 322166
OS Northings: 296443
OS Grid: SO221964
Mapcode National: GBR B0.CTG9
Mapcode Global: WH7B2.LXF4
Plus Code: 9C4RHV62+35
Entry Name: The Conduit
Listing Date: 19 July 1950
Last Amended: 16 December 2005
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 7979
Building Class: Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
ID on this website: 300007979
Location: Situated facing E over the Market Square.
County: Powys
Town: Montgomery
Community: Montgomery (Trefaldwyn)
Community: Montgomery
Built-Up Area: Montgomery
Traditional County: Montgomeryshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Stone retaining wall and former outlet to the town reservoir. The lane rising to the castle on the right is known as The Conduit. Marked as a reservoir on 1833 map and a well-head marked on John Speed's 1610 map. The stonework is said to date from c. 1890, using stone from the County Gaol of 1830-2 that had closed in 1878. It incorporates an ashlar shield with the Powis arms, dated 1777, from the previous well-head.
Retaining wall and former water outlet, tooled squared green stone with plinth and coping. Tudor style. Projected central feature with shouldered gable over chamfered elliptical arched shallow recess (infilled with long blocks of a paler tooled stone. To this is affixed re-used sandstone ashlar shield with the arms of the Earls of Powis and coronet. Short curved retaining wall to each side, each terminating in a pilaster. On top of the gable is a scrolled wrought-iron high support for a lamp with iron finial.
Included as a formally designed stone feature, important in the setting of the Market Square.
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