Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	drinking fountain, Sedbergh
Street:-	Finkle Street
locality:-	Sedbergh
civil parish:-	Sedbergh (formerly Yorkshire)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	drinking fountain
locality type:-	seat
coordinates:-	SD65749210
1Km square:-	SD6592
10Km square:-	SD69
	BNR16.jpg "1837 QUEEN'S DIAMOND JUBILEE 1897" (taken 21.5.2007)   BNR17.jpg "... WOMAN OF SAMARIA AND OUR SAVIOUR AT THE WELL" (taken 21.5.2007)
evidence:-	drawing:- Butler 1982-92
source data:-	drinking fountain, Finkle Street, Sedbergh drawn by David Butler courtesy of David Butler   click to enlarge PR1458.jpg "... [IN 1897 / THIS STREET WAS WIDENED TO COMMEMORATE THE SIXTIETH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF / QUEEN VICTORIA/ BY HER GRATEFUL SUBJECTS / AT SEDBERGH]" item:-  private collection : 377 Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-	database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:-  Jubilee Drinking Fountain
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "JUBILEE DRINKING FOUNTAIN BUILT INTO CHURCHYARD HALL / / FINKLE STREET / SEDBERGH / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484555 / SD6574292112"
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "Drinking fountain with side-benches. Erected in 1897 when Finkle Street was widened to commemorate the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria. Sandstone ashlar with black marble plaque and brass cup. Classical style. In the form of a pedimented aedicule, with console-footed fluted pilasters framing a recessed centre, a pulvinated frieze inscribed "1837" over the left pilaster, "QUEEN'S DIAMOND JUBILEE" in the centre, and "1897" over the right-hand pilaster. The centre has a convex bowl with a drinking cup on a chain, and a small black marble plaque with an inscription recording the cause and occasion. The pediment contains relief sculpture inscribed "THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA AND OUR SAVIOUR AT THE WELL" (now protected by a perspex screen). To left and right are integral stone side-benches. Forms group with Church of St Andrew (qv)."

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