Whitburn, Front Street, drinking fountain
Whitburn, Front Street, drinking fountain
HER Number
9520
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Whitburn, Front Street, drinking fountain
Place
Whitburn
Map Sheet
NZ46SW
Class
Commemorative
Site Type: Broad
Commemorative Monument
Site Type: Specific
Commemorative Monument
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Structure
Description
'This fountain was presented to the inhabitants of the village of Whitburn by Mrs Barnes in commemoration of the sixtieth year of the reign of her majesty Queen Victoria and was erected on this site by order of the parish council 1897'. LOCAL LIST
Easting
440530
Northing
561780
Grid Reference
NZ440530561780
Sources
Tyne and Wear Specialist Conservation Team, March 1992, Other Buildings of Acknowledged Architectural Quality or Historic Significance (South Tyneside UDP Appendix ENV (B)); Ian Ayris, Peter Jubb, Steve Palmer and Paul Usherwood, 1996, A Guide to the Public Monuments and Sculpture of Tyne and Wear, p 44; SOUTH TYNESIDE LOCAL LIST REVIEW 2011, LSHA/182/W