Description

BOLTON ABBEY B 6160
SE 05 SE (east side)

8/72 Cavendish Memorial

II

Memorial with a fountain. Dated 1886. Ashlar. Hexagonal in plan. 4 steps
to plinth, at each corner offset gableted buttresses rising above the
parapets. Frieze below eaves bearing inscription 'This fountain was erected
by electors of the West Riding as a tribute to his memory, Frederick Charles
Cavendish Born November XXX. MDCCCXXXVI. Died May VI. MDCCCLXXXII'. Below
between buttresses pointed arches on banded half-shafts with ogee headed
hoodmoulds. In the centre of base a fountain. At frieze level there is a
gargoyle to each buttress. Above frieze an embattled parapet with blank
cusped pointed-arched arcading. Central coat of arms to each side. Above
an open ogee lantern, with a crocketed pinnacle on open gableted arches
above the lantern.

Listing NGR: SE0750354484

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Cavendish memorial fountain at Wikipedia
• Wikidata IDs Q20712039 Q26424735

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)