Survey Data
Reg No
30405502
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Artistic, Social, Technical
Original Use
Water pump
Date
1850 - 1870
Coordinates
123343, 245497
Date Recorded
15/12/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1860, now disused. Comprising cylindrical shaft with raised horizontal banding, fluted upper section, fluted domed cap with finial, decoration to spout neck and cow's tail pumping arm. Set back from road and enclosed on three sides by rendered boundary wall with rectangular concrete water trough to front.
Appraisal
Water pumps were important to nineteenth and twentieth-century social life as they provided a communal water source to local communities. This pump is located in a prominent position adjacent to a Marian shrine and at the corner of a crossroads. The detailing adds artistic interest to this once functional object and though now disused, it provides a visually attractive feature in the landscape.