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Pump at corner of Church Bank

A Grade II Listed Building in Montgomery, Powys

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.5605 / 52°33'37"N

Longitude: -3.1475 / 3°8'50"W

OS Eastings: 322309

OS Northings: 296466

OS Grid: SO223964

Mapcode National: GBR B0.CV1B

Mapcode Global: WH7B2.MWFY

Plus Code: 9C4RHV63+52

Entry Name: Pump at corner of Church Bank

Listing Date: 30 March 1983

Last Amended: 16 December 2005

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 7983

Building Class: Water Supply and Drainage

ID on this website: 300007983

Location: Situated in rebate of stone walls at street corner opposite Ivy House, Church Bank.

County: Powys

Town: Montgomery

Community: Montgomery (Trefaldwyn)

Community: Montgomery

Built-Up Area: Montgomery

Traditional County: Montgomeryshire

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History

One of two public pumps surviving in the town dating from the modernisation of the water-supply by the Earls of Powis in the late C19. The other, dated 1871 is on Arthur Street, by Steppe House. Pump stands against a corner projection in the stone wall.

Exterior

Water pump, wooden rectangular box structure with iron panels bolted to the front. The central panel has segmental-arched raised border around a large spout surmounted by an earl's coronet, with the date 1876 in the lower corners. Long iron pump handle attached to the right side.

Reasons for Listing

Included for its special interest as a pump with distinctive detail, part of the later C19 public water-supply.

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