DRINKING FOUNTAIN IN HIGHGATE WOOD

DRINKING FOUNTAIN IN HIGHGATE WOOD, MUSWELL HILL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1096149
Date first listed:: 03-Mar-2003
List Entry Name:: DRINKING FOUNTAIN IN HIGHGATE WOOD
Statutory Address:: DRINKING FOUNTAIN IN HIGHGATE WOOD, MUSWELL HILL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1096149
Date first listed:: 03-Mar-2003
List Entry Name:: DRINKING FOUNTAIN IN HIGHGATE WOOD
Statutory Address 1:: DRINKING FOUNTAIN IN HIGHGATE WOOD, MUSWELL HILL ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: DRINKING FOUNTAIN IN HIGHGATE WOOD, MUSWELL HILL ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Haringey (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 28349 88870

Details

800/0/10086 MUSWELL HILL ROAD 03-MAR-03 Drinking Fountain in Highgate Wood

II

Public drinking fountain in Highgate Woods. 1888. Pink Peterhead granite obelisk with chamfered angles, over a broad basin, carried on a square plinth standing on an octagonal base; the lower elements are of grey granite. Within the plinth is a narrow dog trough. The west side of the obelisk sports a bronze plaque with the inscription 'The Gift of a few Friends. Erected 1888'. Below, on the same side, is a second plaque bearing an inscription from Coleridge: "Drink, Pilgrim, here! Here rest! And if thy heart / Be innocent, here too shalt thou refresh / Thy spirit, listening to some gentle sound / Or passing gale or hum of murmering bees!" HISTORY: a picturesquely sited example of a public drinking fountain, erected shortly after the opening of Highgate Woods as a public open space in 1886. Coleridge had strong connections with Highgate, living there from 1816 until his death in 1834; there he was buried as well.

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Legacy System number:: 490114
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.