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drinking fountain, Egremont
Street:-   Green Dykes
civil parish:-   Egremont (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   drinking fountain
locality type:-   water trough
coordinates:-   NY00911051
1Km square:-   NY0010
10Km square:-   NY01
SummaryText:-   granite with knobs on
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


photograph
CGA10.jpg (taken 28.4.2017)  
photograph
CGA11.jpg  Inscription:-
"PRESENTED BY / ALEXANDER COOK / OF CHICAGO / TO HIS NATIVE TOWN / A.D. 1904" (taken 28.4.2017)  

evidence:-   drawing:- Butler 1982-92
source data:-   drinking fountain, Green Dykes, Egremont drawn by David Butler
courtesy of David Butler
image  click to enlarge
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"[A C]"
"[Presented by / Alexander Cork, Esq. / of Chicago / to his native town / A.D. 1904]"
"[Wm. Boddie / St Clair St. / Aberdeen]"
item:-  private collection : 377
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"DRINKING FOUNTAIN AND WATER TROUGH OPPOSITE ENTRANCE TO CASTLE GROUNDS / / GREEN DYKES / EGREMONT / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76122 / NY0091110512"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Drinking fountain and water-trough with dated sans-serif inscription on fountain: PRESENTED BY ALEXANDER COOK ESQ. OF CHICAGO TO HIS NATIVE TOWN AD 1904. Mason's name given on plinth: WILLIAM BODDIE (?) CLAIR STREET ABERDEEEN. Polished grey and pink granite. Fountain on right has square plinth block on 3 steps; bowl to north, south, and east faces above with consoles supporting corner shafts. Corniced top with ball finial to fluted dome. Water-trough on left."

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