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Latitude: 53.259 / 53°15'32"N
Longitude: -1.9135 / 1°54'48"W
OS Eastings: 405868
OS Northings: 373558
OS Grid: SK058735
Mapcode National: GBR HZ2R.JG
Mapcode Global: WHBBS.LB1X
Plus Code: 9C5W735P+HJ
Entry Name: Samuel Turner Memorial Drinking Fountain
Listing Date: 31 January 1997
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1257899
English Heritage Legacy ID: 463337
ID on this website: 101257899
Location: Buxton, High Peak, Derbyshire, SK17
County: Derbyshire
District: High Peak
Electoral Ward/Division: Buxton Central
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Buxton
Traditional County: Derbyshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Derbyshire
Church of England Parish: Buxton with Burbage and King Sterndale
Church of England Diocese: Derby
Tagged with: Fountain
BUXTON
SK0573NE THE CRESCENT
616-1/3/87 (South East side)
Samuel Turner Memorial Drinking
Fountain
GV II
Drinking fountain surmounted by a lamp. 1878, restored late
C20. Ashlar with cast-iron lamp. 4 step octagonal ashlar base,
with square ashlar drinking fountain above.
Each face has a chamfered animal drinking bowl with rusticated
round arch, keystone and plain flanking pilasters. Above a
moulded round arch between Ionic pilasters topped by a
segmental pediment, with a marble bowl fed by water from a
carved ashlar lions head.
North-east face inscribed 1878/ ERECTED/ BY PUBLIC
SUBSCRIPTION/ AS A MEMORIAL OF/ SAMUEL TURNER/ WHO DIED OCT 4
1876. AGED 73 YEARS, south-east inscribed TREASURER TO THE/
DEVONSHIRE HOSPITAL AND/ BUXTON BATH CHARITY/ AND A MEMBER OF/
THE BUXTON LOCAL BOARD, south-west inscribed CHURCHWARDEN/ OF
THE PARISH/ DURING FORTY THREE YEARS and north-west inscribed
A NATIVE OF BUXTON/ AN ACTIVE AND USEFUL TOWNSMAN/ A GOOD
NEIGHBOUR/ AND A KIND FRIEND. Topped by an ashlar dome with a
very ornate iron standard supporting a large octagonal
lantern.
Listing NGR: SK0586873558
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