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Clifton Memorial Fountain Between Station Square and Ballam Road

A Grade II Listed Building in Lytham St Anne's, Lancashire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.7387 / 53°44'19"N

Longitude: -2.9635 / 2°57'48"W

OS Eastings: 336544

OS Northings: 427357

OS Grid: SD365273

Mapcode National: GBR 7TR6.6H

Mapcode Global: WH85P.G915

Plus Code: 9C5VP2QP+FJ

Entry Name: Clifton Memorial Fountain Between Station Square and Ballam Road

Listing Date: 13 January 1971

Last Amended: 15 February 1993

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1219395

English Heritage Legacy ID: 385320

ID on this website: 101219395

Location: Lytham, Fylde, Lancashire, FY8

County: Lancashire

District: Fylde

Electoral Ward/Division: Clifton

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Lytham St Anne's

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire

Church of England Parish: Lytham St John the Divine

Church of England Diocese: Blackburn

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Description



LYTHAM ST ANNES

SD3627SE STATION SQUARE, Lytham
621-1/6/89 (East side)
13/01/71 Clifton Memorial Fountain between
Station Square and Ballam Road
(Formerly Listed as:
BALLAM ROAD, Lytham
(West side)
Memorial in coppice to West of
railway bridge, Sparrow Park)

GV II

Memorial drinking fountain. Erected c.1882 in front of Market
House in Market Square, removed to this site to make way for
War Wemorial in 1920s; recently restored. Commemorates John
Talbot Clifton of Lytham Hall (d.1882).
Sandstone ashlar under sandstone and timber shelter with red
tiled pyramidal roof.
The drinking fountain is approx. 1 metre square in section and
approx. two and a half metres high, consisting of a square
rock-faced pedestal carrying a large encircling moulded vessel
which has 4 oval bowls and a square superstructure in the
centre with a round-headed niche in each side containing
carved dolphins, a foliated frieze and large cresting carved
with the Clifton arms and motto "MORTEM AUT TRIUMPHUM".
The shelter is square, with sandstone pedestals at the corners
each carrying 3 wooden pillars carved with sunflowers, and a
wooden frieze inscribed on all 4 sides: "ELEANOR CECILY
CLIFTON ERECTED THIS FOUNTAIN / IN MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND JOHN
TALBOT CLIFTON / WHO DIED AT HAMMAN RHEA ALGIERS APRIL 16th
1882 / T, IS WELL, T, IS SOMETHING, WE MAY STAND WHERE HE IN
ENGLISH EARTH IS LAID".
Attached to the west side of the shelter and standing on the
ground is a full-width horse trough with segmentally bowed
front.


Listing NGR: SD3654427357

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