Conduit with Retaining Wall and Pavement Steps, Modbury
Description: Conduit with Retaining Wall and Pavement Steps
Grade: II
Date Listed: 26 January 1967
English Heritage Building ID: 99733
OS Grid Reference: SX6576051628
OS Grid Coordinates: 265760, 51628
Latitude/Longitude: 50.3492, -3.8882
Location: Church Street, Modbury, Devon PL21 0QW
Locality: Modbury
Local Authority: South Hams
County: Devon
Country: England
Postcode: PL21 0QW
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Listing Text
MODBURY CHURCH STREET
SX 6451-6551
(north side)
7/139
26.1.67 Conduit with retaining
wall and pavement steps
GV II
Street conduit with flanking walls and steps. 1708, part of the water supply
system presented to the town by Nicholas Trist, the Lord of the Manor. Granite
in squared blocks, supported by rubble walls, cast iron railings. Main conduit
is set at outer pavement edge; under a heavy C19 rock-faced coping is a para-
bolic blind arch out of two stones and over a carved commemorative panel with
Trist around and, in raised capital letters: NICOLAUS TRIST/ARMIGER/HUIUSCE
MUNICIPII/PRAEFECTUS Do.1708! About 2 metres wide overall, and up to 2.5 metres
high, set to steep street. To left a rubble retaining wall runs down by ramp to
street level, with 2 stone steps, and a simple railing in 5 bays. To the right
a similar retaining wall with two flights of 5 stone steps and a second short
run, contained by railing in 5 bays and a return. Water supply to the conduits
not cut until 1950s.
Listing NGR: SX6576051628
Source: English Heritage
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