Randall Memorial Drinking Fountain, Bridgend, Bridgend

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5059 / 51°30'21"N

Longitude: -3.5767 / 3°34'36"W

OS Eastings: 290668

OS Northings: 179727

OS Grid: SS906797

Mapcode National: GBR HD.J921

Mapcode Global: VH5HJ.YDJY

Plus Code: 9C3RGC4F+88

Entry Name: Randall Memorial Drinking Fountain

Listing Date: 29 September 1986

Last Amended: 29 September 1986

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 11301

Building Class: Commemorative

ID on this website: 300011301

Location: At the cross-roads, on the corner with Court Road.

County: Bridgend

Community: Bridgend (Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr)

Community: Bridgend

Built-Up Area: Bridgend

Traditional County: Glamorgan

Tagged with: Fountain Drinking fountain Memorial

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History

Dated 1860, by J W Hugall of London. Victorian Gothic monument; freestone with marble dressings. Commemorative plaque to W face reads "Erected by Caroline, Countess of Dunraven, in memory of her friend John Randall Esq who for thirty-three years managed her estates AD 1860".

Exterior

Reliquary type top with pyramidal spirelet and French Gothic crocket gabled arch with coat of arms to W Marble faced pilasters below linked by foliage band; trefoil headed openings to each face with ornamental ironwork grilles, except to E side. Middle stage of blind shouldered recesses, black lettered marble plaque to W side. Deeper recesses to base flanked by squat pilasters with foliage capitals; semicircular marble basins on stone corbels. Stepped base.

Reasons for Listing

Group value.

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Randall Memorial Drinking Fountain

A Grade II Listed Building in Bridgend, Bridgend