Description

RIPLEY MAIN STREET
SE 2860-2960 (west side)

8/75 Drinking Fountain with
statue
15.3.66 (formerly listed as water
fountain with carved boat)

GV II

Drinking fountain. 1907, using probably C18 statue. Gritstone plinth,
fossiliferous limestone statue. The plinth is approximately 2 metres long
and 1 metre wide, the plinth and statue approximately 2 metres high; the
narrower side facing towards the street having a central recessed panel with
the inscription: "A Gift to Ripley / from / The Hon Alicia Margaret / Dame
Ingilby / 1907". The inscription is flanked by taps and cuphooks. The
statue is of a boar. Dame Alicia was the wife of Sir Henry Day Ingilby
(d1911); her gift was timely as a few years later the 3 inns in the village
were closed by Sir Henry's brother, William.

Listing NGR: SE2839160495

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26468673

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)