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

External Links

• Wikidata Q26513942

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)