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Latitude: 51.7431 / 51°44'35"N
Longitude: -3.3774 / 3°22'38"W
OS Eastings: 304994
OS Northings: 205829
OS Grid: SO049058
Mapcode National: GBR HN.1C6K
Mapcode Global: VH6CY.DGV3
Plus Code: 9C3RPJVF+62
Entry Name: Ironwork Fountain Canopy
Listing Date: 13 January 1988
Last Amended: 13 January 1988
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 11448
Building Class: Industrial
ID on this website: 300011448
Location: Set on modern concrete base in open ground immediately S of St Tydfil’s churchyard. Formerly located in centre of road further S, close to site of modern roundabout.
County: Merthyr Tydfil
Community: Town (Y Dref)
Community: Town
Built-Up Area: Merthyr Tydfil
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Fountain
Later C19. Designed by W Macfarlane & Co, architectural ironfounders of Glasgow. Inscribed plate records the erection of the fountain "in commemoration of Robert and Lucy Thomas of Waunwyllt, the pioneers in 1828 of the South Wales Steam Coal Trade". Given by Sir W T Lewis and W T Rees of Aberdare, ca 1890.
Octagonal, openwork iron canopy (in sections) with circular ribbed dome enriched by interlaced foliage trails, all surmounted by a heroic classical figure. Filigree spandrels to cusped arcades with rope-mouldings, circular armoria and guilloche bands. Griffin finials over volute brackets to angles, polygonal foliage capitals to leaf shafts with foliage frieze above square bases.
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